Symptoms
cPanel's STATISTICS section is showing the wrong Inodes usage for an account.
Description
The issue is caused by the Inodes usage being cached.
Please note, inode limitations are only imposed by CloudLinux. If CloudLinux is not installed, cPanel does have the File Usage option in the STATISTICS section but it's not limited. Further details on this can be found here:
Can I Limit Inodes through cPanel & WHM?
Workaround
The cache will eventually be auto-updated, but you can manually update it with this command:
cl-quota -YC