Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 09 May 2010 01:39:54 Crístian Viana wrote:
> I shutdown this computer everyday, those temp files shouldn't be alive for
> months.
>
> I ran lsof | grep deleted and it returned 132 lines, the biggest number
> being 2032226 (2 MB?), belonging to the Chromium browser process. even if
> every line had that value (which is not), that would sum up 264 MB, but the
> difference of reported/real free space is way bigger than that.
>
> changing the filesystem back to ext3 can solve this problem? it was ext3
> before I've changed it to ext4 some months ago.

I'm fresh out of ideas on this one.

As I understand it, downgrading from ext4 to ext3 normally doesn't work out. 
There are features in ext4 that make it very attractive and most folk enable 
them, but they are incompatible with ext3. Or so I have read.

I would boot into a rescue system and run an fsck on that volume if you have 
not already done so.





>
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Alan McKinnon
<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote:
> > You probably have files opened that have since been deleted. du doesn't
> > report
> > them as the names are no longer in the directory and df doesn't report
> > them as
> > they are pending deletion once the last handle to them is closed.
> >
> > It's a nasty thing to find. Run this:
> >
> > lsof | grep deleted
> >
> > You should find a ton of junk temp files (they will go away when you log
> > out).
> > Look for big numbers in column 8
> >
> > On Sunday 09 May 2010 00:46:28 Crístian Viana wrote:
> > > 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@×××××.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.
> >
> > --
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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