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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 22:07:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hs4cod$d2a$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <z2h92ad22481005081121uc28c8962i7a97d0b491acf48a@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/08/2010 09:21 PM, Crístian Viana wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> 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 filesystem probably ran out of inodes.  "df -i /home" will show 
inode usage.  This can happen when you have many small files; they eat 
inodes but not storage space.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-08 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-08 18:21 [gentoo-user] can't create file but disk isn't full Crístian Viana
2010-05-08 18:32 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-05-08 19:07 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2010-05-08 22:46   ` [gentoo-user] " Crístian Viana
2010-05-08 23:00     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-08 23:39       ` Crístian Viana
2010-05-09  0:07         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-09  1:17         ` Johannes Kimmel
2010-05-09  1:48     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-05-09 22:39       ` Crístian Viana
2010-05-10 15:48         ` Willie Wong
2010-05-11  3:15           ` Crístian Viana
2010-05-12 22:25           ` Alex Schuster
2010-05-12 22:56             ` Willie Wong
2010-05-12 23:37               ` Nikos Chantziaras

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