Re: no space left on device

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 00:38:43 +0000,
  "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> > And a common culprit is whatever is being used for usenet caching/serving...or
> > ordinary mail which is just accumulating in /var/mail (or whereever).
>
> Sheesh. Did I really put ordinary mailbox mail in the uses up inodes category?
> I should taken out and whi....errrr...on the other hand better not might be too
> exciting for some and spark off a whole new xxx web site.

While mbox mailboxes only take one inode per mailbox, maildir mailboxes take
one inode per message. So if you are using maildir you could potentially
use a significant number of inodes for email.