IOERROR Cannot create anymore mailboxes

[Michael Loftis]

What filesystem type?  do a df -i ?  sounds like you ran out of inodes 
maybe...or hit some sort of limit with the number of directories.

Also need other details like what OS.

--On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 19:51 +0100 "Boyle, Bernadette" 
<B.Boyle at gcal.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a terrible problem at the moment at the university with new
> students not being able to receive mail because I cannot create any more
> accounts.
>
> I am currently running cyrus-imapd-2.0.17. However I cannot create any
> more mailboxes.
>
> I receive the following error when trying to create new accounts ...
>
> Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR:
> creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jsnadd11: Too many links
> Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR:
> creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jtarra10: Too many links
> Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR:
> creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jvargh12: Too many links
> Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR:
> creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jwalsh14: Too many links
> Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR:
> creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jwatso26: Too many links
>  .... and so it goes on
>
> I currently have 32,765 directories in this account and it seems like
> perhaps I have reached the quota. Is there anyway to stop this?
>
> Warm Regards
>
> Bernadette Boyle
>
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