No space left on device – running out of Inodes

One of my servers went down today. Problems started with deployment on jenkins that reported “No space left on device”, although partition was not nearly full. If you ever run into such trouble – most likely you have too many small or 0-sized files on your disk, and while you have enough disk space, you have exhausted all available Inodes. Below is the solution for this problem.

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