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…
Quoting from the article:
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.
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.
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