[PLUG] Odd disk space error

[Matt Alexander]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:30:28PM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > Yep...  I'm out of inodes...  I had a Perl script running that was in fact
> > creating a bajillion little files.  So is there a way to increase my inode
> > stockpile?  Or do I need to reformat the partition with more inodes...?
> > Thanks,
> 
> Rather than reformatting the drive or switching to ReiserFS how about 
> changing the Perl to write fewer files that contain all the data?

Yeah that's what I ended up doing.  It was just easier at the time for the
problem I was solving to create lots of little files.  I also went through
and removed all the files in my working directory that ended up with zero
size:

find . -empty -type f -exec rm {} \;