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what inodes are safe to delete? I've deleted emails and backup creator zip files but still over the limit. No clue how to proceed. 
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by giving comp info or something to help, I can only guess that it's generic and get's a generic answer >
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+inodes+are+safe+to+delete&oq=what+inodes+are+safe+to+delete&aqs=chrome..69i57.2894j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
It might help if you would tell what OS and what filesystem you are talking about, what exactly made you think a limit is reached and the actual statistics of that file system.
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8658/ tells more about inodes.
For example, https://serverfault.com/questions/104986/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-files-a-file-system-can-contain and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40368/maximum-number-of-inodes-in-a-directory says the limit in an ext4 filesystem is 4 billion, but can be set lower when the file system is created.
Moreover, it all depends on you what files in what directory you want to keep. I don't think the number of entries put there by the OS and app installers is anywhere near the limit, and everything after that is done by you. Those are "safe" to delete by definition, if "safe" means the system will still work without them.
If the number if inodes you need is larger than the current limit, it looks like you'll have recreate the file system and then fill it from a backup.
with hostgator running win 10. inodes exceed 100,000 so backups not taken. I don't know which files are safe to delete.
- Windows 10 doesn't have inodes. That makes your question unanswerable.
- What are they hosting for you?
I'm with hostgator for my websites and don't know which files are safe to delete?
It is not safe to delete. That means you only touch or remove files you know about.
Then better ask the web developer that made those websites for you to clean up, or maybe even to write a program that cleans up automatically every month.
If you reach the limit after cleaning up, ask hostgator how to increase the available space or split the files from different sites to different filesystems.
Probably none of this is free.
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