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tmpfs /run/user/1000 ran out of inodes, but it only has 30 files

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3 So today I bother notice an error message being generated by gui program: (FreeFileSync:21930): dconf-CRITICAL **: 11:46:39.475: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': No space left on device. dconf will not work properly. Where /run/user/1000 is a tmpfs for the user's run folder. Thing is that there was plenty of free space on it: $ df -h /run/user/1000 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 1.6G 120K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000 So why then? Well then I discover that there are 0 free inodes remaining. $ df -i /run/user/1000 Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on tmpfs 2027420 2027420 0 100% /run/user/1000 OK great. However the problems is this: I simply cannot find out the reason for this. Because there are very