First up, and less important, the theoretical maximum number of inodes is equal to 2^32 (approximately 4.3 billion inodes). Second, and far more important, is the number of inodes on your system. Generally, the ratio of inodes is 1:16KB of system capacity.

What is inode limit?

INODES represent the amount of all the files located on your hosting account. … For example, a mail stored in your account will be 1 inode, a mail which contained 2 attachments will be 3 inodes. Any image file, video, HTML file, folder and script file are considered inodes.

What happens when inode is full?

An inode is allocated to a file so, if you have gazillions of files, all 1 byte each, you’ll run out of inodes long before you run out of disk. … Additionally, you can delete a directory entry but, if a running process still has the file open, the inode won’t be freed.