no space left?

[Z]

Dan Trainor - hostinthebox.net wrote:

> Chill out, you're probably not out of space.
>
> What more than likely is happening is that you're out of inodes or 
> file allocation units.  'df -i' will show allocation totals and usage.
>
> This happens a lot if you have many mant small files, such as in the 
> case where you have a mail server with very many mails in queue.  Give 
> that a go, and investigate from there.
>
> Thanks
> -dant
>
>
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>
>> Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Shu Hung (Koala) um 3:47:
>>
>>> I have a fileserver which runs FC2. Recently, the system keep 
>>> telling me
>>> that the partition for / has no space left. I use the command "df" to
>>> check things up. This is the result:
>>>
>>>    [root at fileserver /]# df
>>>    Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>>    /dev/hda5 20641788 20423212 0 100% / 
>>
>>> Koala
>>
>> Especially check /tmp, /var/tmp and /var/log, whether there is huge
>> content filling the partition.
>>
>> Alexander
>>
Do a fsck ont ehpartition when you have a chance too. Your metadata 
might be damaged. Happened to me.

Z