[NTLUG:Discuss] No Space Left on Device - but not really

[Stuart Johnston]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Stuart Johnston wrote:
> 
>> I have a Redhat ES3 server that just started acting like it was out of 
>> space on the /home partition.  According to 'df', home is only about 
>> 86% full with about 9gb available.  I deleted some files and it seems 
>> back to normal.
> 
> 
> You need to show the df here...
> 

Ok, just don't make fun of my partitioning scheme.  :)  (I didn't set it 
up.)

#df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              15G  5.8G  8.0G  42% /
/dev/sda1             981M   37M  894M   4% /boot
none                 1004M     0 1004M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5              50G   41G  6.8G  86% /home


>>
>> Is there anything in a standard Redhat ES3 install that would prevent 
>> a user from writing additional files when a partition gets "close" to 
>> full?  Or is there any reason that 'df' might not produce accurate info?
> 
> 
> :)  There's nothing I recommend... but you might want to look at
> tune2fs and see what your minspace setting is... maybe it was
> set too large.  The minspace (or reserved-blocks-percentage) is
> the space in the filesystem that is reserved strictly for root.
> It's used to allow root to have some room when the drive does
> fill up (in order to alleviate the condition).
> 
> Could be you're out of inodes ... there could be several things.

Those all sound like good possibilities but I was in a bit of a hurry to 
get the thing working again so I can't tell for sure now.  I'll just 
have to watch it more closely now as it gets full again.

Thanks for the suggestions,
Stuart Johnston