FW: News is using all the inodes
> Hi,
>
> We have a problem with news, it keeps using all its inodes. We had a
> contractor set news up, and since then another contractor has been
> used to do upgrades. Since then we have just let it roll along, at the
> moment we don't have a suitable contractor we can use.
>
> Up until about a month ago news was fine. Then it started to use up
> all the inodes, and since then regardless of what we do, ie reduce the
> expire times, move categories to another disk, it still manages to use
> up all the inodes.
>
> Basically news is setup on its own 4gb disk formatted as ufs, which
> was built with extra inodes. Previously it was running at around 60%
> disk usage and about the same inode usage. when we changed the expire
> file and restarted news, and then ran news.daily we got it back to
> about 70% inode usage. But then it never remained static, it just
> seemed to keep growing. At first I thought there must have been a
> burst of activity in one of the news groups which had lead to the
> sudden increase in inodes, but now we can't seem to get the thing to
> work for more than a week before it has more problems.
>
> Because news is only rarely used these days, I was prepared to blow
> all the news files away and let it start filling up again, perhaps
> even restructure the disk with even more inodes, or even swap to
> advfs. Or maybe there is even a quicker fix, just run some magic tool
> that will clean out any old news files that somehow may be getting
> missed by news.daily,
>
> Thanks to anyone that can thow some light on which way to jump.
>
> Dennis
>
>
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