Re: [PLUG] Reclaiming inodes

[Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:51:30 -0400
"Gavin W. Burris" <bug@wharton.upenn.edu> wrote:

> It's also possible that files that have been deleted are still being
> cached, not freed, because they are mapped by some process in
> memory.  You can check with lsof, or just reboot to see if it
> clears.  Cheers.

On that same note, if the disk is an SSD, run fstrim on its partitions
to reclaim deleted inodes.

SteveT

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