nagios is warning about root partition space

[benningtonr]

is there a temp folder i can empty?
i started getting these errors Sunday.

Service: Root Partition
Host: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
State: WARNING
Info:
DISK WARNING - free space: / 5656 MB (19.93% inode=90%):

[benningtonr]

i deleted all my back ups after moving them to my pc.

[kfanselow]

Hi benningtonr,

It sounds like you were able to resolve the problem. Often times systems run out of inodes when a process ( such as sendmail ) creates a large number of small files so it might be worth your time to check /var/spool if it happens again.