From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OAopw-0003Et-0c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 18:33:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 632CDE0876; Sat, 8 May 2010 18:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24049E0876 for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 18:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm1 with SMTP id 1so1398388fxm.40 for ; Sat, 08 May 2010 11:32:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=yaN+LgWEtvzUwISqiAMfk8hhi2OtW9DcpYaLdnDbZhU=; b=k1923K4YTgaqF1YW7BETxyUco/X9ASBZS2nClxPzhDF3+/K2hkKDEXo2oNaVJNYQiq sehI5+riG+WffTmobbqPFsGXETK5R8I0H2oM97HaoGBfqW+hjBRGGArhiBSAIpYBNJR5 1yav5XS/nwwrn5hnuBgceR4ijoI3gKahrZ4wM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=xIfSdh6mUez/46UcHUwbtQM2zXQgIfAqQSa/3N3OI7K6SZRZoZs008OWxMvrUQqMQf yQrGGQOD+FZ9FsFe8XkMlAdmkHz7oT0VWcp3a2QPVs1kmHBdubfnc2/rMe8xBFNAaw9P 2lTH2+1MyJRScXrEZYZ5SNS1M/rB+pEzf8RD8= Received: by 10.103.79.19 with SMTP id g19mr925946mul.75.1273343558394; Sat, 08 May 2010 11:32:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p5DCC1327.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.204.19.39]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u26sm13435048mug.25.2010.05.08.11.32.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 08 May 2010 11:32:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't create file but disk isn't full Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 20:32:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.33.3r4; KDE/4.4.3; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201005082032.35026.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 88872a8b-65bd-468c-bc63-02fdd63cbc95 X-Archives-Hash: 6bdb01dd01c9502f26cf47fd0a0d7f59 On Samstag 08 Mai 2010, Cr=EDstian Viana wrote: > hi everyone, >=20 > something weird is happening on my system. I can't create new files, it > says "No space left on device", but the disk has several gigabytes of free > space! the output of "df -h" is: >=20 > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > rootfs 35G 23G 11G 69% / > /dev/root 35G 23G 11G 69% / > rc-svcdir 1.0M 120K 904K 12% /lib64/rc/init.d > udev 10M 240K 9.8M 3% /dev > shm 974M 1.1M 973M 1% /dev/shm > /dev/sda6 157G 133G 17G 89% /home > /dev/sda1 35G 28G 7.6G 79% /mnt/windows >=20 > I'm running out of space on the home partition. it says it has 17 GB of > free space, but right now there's only 330 MB available (I wrote a small > program to create the largest file it can). this was happening before, > when I had a few gigabytes free, but now the [fake] available space is > growing and I'm losing space on my disk each day! where should I start > looking for to solve this problem? the filesystem of the home partition is > ext4. >=20 > I don't even know if this is related to Gentoo, but that's the OS I'm > running :-) I'm running ~amd64, by the way. >=20 > regards. run out of inodes?