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

[Chris Cox]

Stuart Johnston wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
> 
>> Stuart Johnston wrote:
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>> 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
...
>> Could be you're out of inodes ... there could be several things.

Need a df -i for the inodes.

> 
> 
> 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.

Use tune2fs -l /dev/sda<whatever> to see what your reserved percentage is.