it doesn't seem so :-(

Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda6            20856832  108698 20748134    1% /home

I didn't know that the filesystem could run out of inodes before the disk space itself! thanks for the information :-)

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
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.