Plesk upgrade fails: installing a package needs inodes on the / filesystem

Symptoms

Plesk upgrade is failing with one of the following errors in /var/log/plesk/install/autoinstaller3.log:

Fatal error during packages installation: Test Transaction Errors: installing package needs X inodes on the / filesystem

Fatal error during packages installation: Test Transaction Errors: installing package needs XMB on the / filesystem

Cause

Not enough free disk space or inodes on root filesystem.

Resolution

Every file is using at least 1 inode and partitions are usually created as 1 inode per 16kb. Therefore, consider the following options to resolve this issue:

• Free up some disk space as described in the following article: How to free up disk space from temporary files on a Plesk server?

• Increase the amount of disk space on root partition, refer to the following article in case of LVM: How to resize hard drive on Linux systems with LVM

Additional Information

How To Increase Amount of Disk inodes in Linux