The root partition on one of our machines filled up today because it ran
out of indoes. We've cleared out some files but can't see how it could
possibly use so many inodes. Find reports ~50,000 files while df -i
claims over 620,000 are used out of 640,000. The fs is ext3.

[root@localhost /]# find / -xdev | wc -l
47636
[root@localhost /]# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             640000  623423   16577   98% /
/dev/sda1              30120      35   30085    1% /boot
none                  210437       1  210436    1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5            8077312      11 8077301    1% /diska
/dev/mapper/vg0-diskb
                     2101255552 95868443 2005387109    5% /diskc
/dev/sdc1            4294967295 30501632 4264465663    1% /diskb


Anyone know why this inconsistency could be?

Tim Edwards