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 1OAso0-0001Yu-5C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 22:47:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67666E07D4; Sat, 8 May 2010 22:46:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f183.google.com (mail-qy0-f183.google.com [209.85.221.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD69E07D4 for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 22:46:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so3827949qyk.1 for ; Sat, 08 May 2010 15:46:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=RzlBhU95esTe6zU9kr5LJdcECd5mRvB3hA/qjIZo9b8=; b=gkAiVlQuHuBMQkd+KwBx6EoXOwTk5vtkerU83K/qZCGqw2vSO73JVAwooK/CdggizB IadKhgHZqusCfyhN3ssNuKVHuvWAODT/Z3grvkniGkwYOdRpCkf8RKH2rfTHDZjOw0hH XFbtFTB5wEF3JDvWdEAYOp7oChTM5xU2MwOiM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=IDhDznoP337Vvhhjr8bGnVS8fcVkxkB/HlR9XxX3sVSLoVbcucuF5tJ7+TWzeJQ9ki oJ6SnoTY4ZSVPYq/8iEEROmRdayJQ31x2LxpYlxut98eE0Ja0cF+wSh48PM+h8skSI35 3+DVGIID1oy1RD4605MhQK+F60wyyDF0N6Xmo= Received: by 10.229.217.208 with SMTP id hn16mr1504355qcb.87.1273358803582; Sat, 08 May 2010 15:46:43 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.229.240.211 with HTTP; Sat, 8 May 2010 15:46:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Cr=C3=ADstian_Viana?= Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:46:28 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016361e7da828c1d104861cf37c X-Archives-Salt: 9392cd70-2407-4833-ac5e-f704553d3d4f X-Archives-Hash: 18e1c94d7a6e1d311412148e0047d95d --0016361e7da828c1d104861cf37c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 wrote: > On 05/08/2010 09:21 PM, Cr=C3=ADstian 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 b= ut > not storage space. > > > --0016361e7da828c1d104861cf37c Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
it doesn't seem so :-(

Filesystem =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Inodes =C2=A0 IUsed =C2=A0 IFree IUse% Mo= unted on
/dev/sda6 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A020856= 832 =C2=A0108698 20748134 =C2=A0 =C2=A01% /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 Chantz= iaras <realnc@arcor= .de> wrote:
On 05/08/2010 09:21 PM, Cr=C3=ADstian 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 gigabyte= s of
free space!

The filesystem probably ran out of inodes. =C2=A0"df -i /home" wi= ll show inode usage. =C2=A0This can happen when you have many small files; = they eat inodes but not storage space.



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