I received a notification like this one below:
Disk Usage Warning: The user “$cPanelUsername” ($domain.TLD) has reached their disk quota.
When you receive a notification such as the one above, it means that your account has used up its inodes.
Now, it is worth pointing out that normal disk usage is different from inode usage.
On our web hosting infrastructure, your current disk space is unlimited.
Everything in Linux is a file and inodes can be described as fixed-length table entries in a Linux file system.
These hold information about one specific file and store basic information about each file system object (regular files, folders, hard links, etc).
When you used your inode allocation, you won’t be able to create new files.
The reason is that the file system won't be able to allocate an inode number to any new file you might create.
To resolve this, please visit Files >> Disk Usage (or File Manager) to find the directories taking up space.
You can also do this via a CLI:
for i in *; do echo $i; find $i -maxdepth 12 | wc -l; done
or simply:
ls -i
Then free up space to remove any old data you no longer need.
Doing so ensures that it is consistent with the pre-allocated limit assigned when your account was created which largely depends on the web hosting plan you have subscribed to.
If you need time to think about this, please let the account team know so that we can temporarily increase your inode limit to ensure that your websites remain online.
