Hidden Inodes?

[Rockcity]

I run the .php script:
<?php
echo "<b>";
system('pwd');
echo "</b>: ";
system('find . | wc -l');
echo " inodes<br />\n<b>";
system('cd ~/public_html; pwd');
echo "</b>: ";
system('cd ~/public_html; find . | wc -l');
echo " inodes<br />\n<b>";
system('cd ~; pwd');
echo "</b>: ";
system('cd ~; find . | wc -l');
echo " inodes";
?>
And get the result:

/home/mysite/public_html : 22837 inodes
/home/mysite/public_html : 22837 inodes
/home/mysite : 245323 inodes

How is it possible that my webpages have only 22837 inodes,
but my site root get 245323 inodes.

I deleted one big database, but it not help any inode. I delete some
pages and then inodes drop down a little bit.

Can somebody help me? Where or what are the hidden inodes?

[Rockcity]

I found something! Boxtrapper -spam assistant program stores emails, queues and stuff. Lets remove them...

F U spammers!

[Sam]

They are things such as mail, config files etc.

Login to FTP and you will see files and folders above your public_html folder.

[Rockcity]

/home/mysite/public_html : 22838 inodes
/home/mysite/public_html : 22838 inodes
/home/mysite : 24547 inodes


I get rid of the boxtrapper in /etc/

Thanks to HG support mail and this forum.

[Luke Morton]

I recently found out I had a load of mail sent to the main mail account which I do not use I ended up having 285,000 iNodes!!! Had to get the gators to delete them for me. Try the folders /home/mysite/mail/cur and /home/mysite/mail/new

[Luke Morton]

To add to my post above I found the cause of these emails, it was cron job reports reporting the success of each cron job every minute it was running. I have filtered the emails now from my cPanel and am having no more troubles. I think you can also configure which email it is sent to on the cron page in the cPanel of shared hosting accounts.

[quietFinn]

Originally Posted by Luke Morton

To add to my post above I found the cause of these emails, it was cron job reports reporting the success of each cron job every minute it was running. I have filtered the emails now from my cPanel and am having no more troubles. I think you can also configure which email it is sent to on the cron page in the cPanel of shared hosting accounts.

You run a cronjob once a minute??

[Serra]

Originally Posted by quietFinn

You run a cronjob once a minute??

If he runs a cron every minute, he should draft an email to Abuse and tell them to unsuspend his account and email it now. That way, when it is suspended, they will already be on deck to unsuspend it.