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From: "Crístian Viana" <cristiandeives@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 22:47:32
Message-Id: s2j92ad22481005081546qd42baa9aj39892324049198fa@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full by Nikos Chantziaras
1 it doesn't seem so :-(
2
3 Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
4 /dev/sda6 20856832 108698 20748134 1% /home
5
6 I didn't know that the filesystem could run out of inodes before the disk
7 space itself! thanks for the information :-)
8
9 On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
10
11 > On 05/08/2010 09:21 PM, Crístian Viana wrote:
12 >
13 >> hi everyone,
14 >>
15 >> something weird is happening on my system. I can't create new files, it
16 >> says "No space left on device", but the disk has several gigabytes of
17 >> free space!
18 >>
19 >
20 > The filesystem probably ran out of inodes. "df -i /home" will show inode
21 > usage. This can happen when you have many small files; they eat inodes but
22 > not storage space.
23 >
24 >
25 >

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>