running out of inodes?

[Chris Torek]

In article <68000001 at sts> roy at sts.sts.UUCP writes:
>How does one go about figuring how many inodes a filesystem has?

On modern systems, simply run `df -i'.

>The reason I want to know is, every time I do a man command on a
>command with a fair amount of documentation, I get "Word overflow." a
>bunch of times and finally "Out of temp file space."

These messages come from n/troff.  `Out of temp file space' has
nothing to do with files; the `file space' in modern [nt]roffs is
in memory.  This memory region has a fixed size in many (if not all)
implementations.
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