<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066"><br>
</font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066">></font></font></font>> Hello all,
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</font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066">></font></font></font>> I've been
using Mythbuntu for years and currently have version 12.04.5
LTS of Xbuntu/Mythbuntu installed on my home server. <br>
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</font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066">></font></font></font>> The system
has been very stable for a long time, but I have encountered
some trouble tonight! <br>
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like all of the disks are write protected or something. <br>
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<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066">></font></font></font>Inodes? <br>
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<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066">></font></font></font>df -ih <br>
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<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066">></font></font></font>Reboot <br>
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<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#660066">></font></font></font>Btw this may not
be a myth problem and a more generic Linux issue, so this list
may not be completely appropriate.<br>
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The output of df -ih is:<br>
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df -ih<br>
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on<br>
/dev/sda1 955K 955K 0 100% /<br>
udev 973K 500 972K 1% /dev<br>
tmpfs 983K 421 983K 1% /run<br>
none 983K 2 983K 1% /run/lock<br>
none 983K 1 983K 1% /run/shm<br>
/dev/sda4 12M 990 12M 1% /tv<br>
/dev/sdb1 117M 202K 117M 1% /files<br>
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I don't know what this should normally look like, but that
doesn't look right does it?<br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Definitely not.</div><div><br></div><div> I would guess that something wrote a whole bunch of tiny (0 byte?) files to /... using up all your inodes. I would start looking in /tmp and /var.</div><div><br></div><div>You could run a command like the following from each directory and it should give you a count of all the files smaller than 1 byte by subdirectory... just iterate through the directories with the largest numbers until you find all the files:</div><div><br></div><div> sudo find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read -r dir; do printf "%s:\t" "$dir"; sudo find "$dir" -type f -size -1c| wc -l; done<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>