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Linux_Fragmented_File_System  
Situation Description
Possible Causes
Suggested Actions
Situation Description

The percentage of i-nodes to disk space used is high. This may indicate high disk fragmentation on that particular disk. Disk fragmentation may severely impact System IO performance.

 

Possible Causes
  1. Some process or user creating a large number of small files.

 

Suggested Actions

To verify that your system is truly suffering from fragmentation problems, use the fsck command.

Fragmentation is an issue only if your disk is nearly full. Try using defragmentation utilities. Alternatively, back up the fragmented file system, create a fresh file system, and then restore the backed up files on the new file system.

 

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