[mythtv-users] MythTV Filled Hard drive MySQL service will notstart at boot.

[Dave Sherohman]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:47:44AM -0400, Andrew Plumb wrote:
> Keep an eye on the number of files in /var/log and subdirectories, not just
> their sizes.
> 
> I once had a situation (not MythTV related) where a bunch of travelling
> workshop laptops all started to fail for some unknown reason. There was
> still plenty of physical space on the drives, but a little daemon that was
> looking for network connections had created thousands of little files; the
> root file systems had run out of *address* space. It was manifesting as "out
> of space" errors.

You can use `df -i` to check on the number of inodes and see whether
they've all been used.

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