Visvanath Ratnaweera

Hello Mathew

You wrote:
> Our Moodledata directory is set to root:apache permissions with 0660 on the files.

It should be possible to have root as the owner of the moodledata directory, provided that you give the apache-user full write permissions in moodledata. What does ls -ld /path/to/moodledata show? In your case it should print something like drwxrwxXXX root apache-group (X means don't care).

> But even though the apache user is allowed to write the files, because it is not the owner, it's not allowed to chmod the files.

A bit of a confusion there - your apache-user and apache-group both are called apache!

Anyway, could the problem a) missing x in moodledata, I mean drwxrw-XXX instead of drwxrwxXXX? Or, $CFG->directorypermissions not right?

You have a number of alternatives. There is a dedicated forum for this, the Languages forum: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=43. You see detailed pointers only when you write a new discussion: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/post.php?forum=26. Alternatively, you can request the moderator to move this discussion to the Languages forum.

This thread is a duplicate of https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=336114.

You do it by https://docs.moodle.org/en/Upgrading your present Moodle, specifically:
- https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/Upgrading
- https://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Upgrading
- https://docs.moodle.org/30/en/Upgrading.
if the new version is to replace the old version.

Otherwise you _migrate_. Read https://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_migration.

Hallo Donald

If your hosting package allows, say only 10k inodes, the answer is to change the package (or the provider). If you are allowed 10M and Moodle occupies 8M already, there is something wrong with Moodle or the system software which need to be investigated and cleared. Since you don't know the number, I don't have an answer.