Step guide on. How to delete inode files

[Ola289]

Hello good morning everyone please can anyone help me a step by step guide on how to delete inode files I look forward to your reply

[ChrisPAR]

What does the inode limit mean

One of the limits in the control panel is the inode limit. What is it, and what happens when you reach it? What is an inode? In short: every file and directory on your hosting account is an inode. Unix-like systems, like Linux and macOS, use inodes to store information about files and directories. Every file and directory on a computer has an inode. A file system has limited number of inodes it can store, and the more inodes are on a system, the longer it takes to look up files. So too many in…

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every file and directory on your hosting account is an inode.

Deleting files and folders you do not need will help the counter go below the limit. Note that inode usage is not immediately updated; you’ll need to wait a few hours before you can see results.

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Please note that the inode counter in the control panel is not a live counter. The inodes of your account are counted once every 8 hours.

So if you just added or removed many files and are wondering why your inode usage hasn’t changed, just wait for some time for the counter to update.