[PLUG] Odd disk space error

Michael Rasmussen mikeraz at patch.com
Wed Feb 11 15:42:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:10:12PM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote:
> Here's the output from df:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             3.9G  1.4G  2.3G  39% /
> none                   46M     0   46M   0% /dev/shm
> 
> 
> And then...
> 
> # touch somefile
> touch: cannot touch `somefile': No space left on device

Do a `df -i`  which will give you an inode count.  If you've
depleated your store of inodes you can get this message.
Would happen if you have lots of little files.

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