Short of this... we deal a lot with inodes in virtualization platforms such as openVZ and at times need to increase them for the end user which is a simple enough thing for a VPS with a change to the value in the conf file. The question is... is there a way to do this in an already partitioned {non-LVM} dedicated box? An end user went to a control panel support who mistook their dedicated for a VPS and identified an issue being caused by an inode shortage. A df -i does indeed show maxed usage in certain partitions but looking for a way to increase this without a reload has been iffy at best... I was thinking <code>echo 65535 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max</code> as I am not seeing the 'max' file in that directory but not 100% sure that would resolve this... anyone who has actually done this on a live machine and can verify or point me in a different direction? Thanks in advance.
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