/tmp directory mode

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:42:12 +0000, Caetano, Greg wrote:

> I needed to recreate the /tmp directory on one of my systems.
> I used "mkdir -m 1777 /tmp" but when I try to run a utility like mkinitrd I get an error message that reads:
> 
> "cannot make temp dir /tmp/initrd.Jm5472: No space left on device"
> 
> There is only one partition / on the spindle and df -h reports "4.6G available"
> 

What does "df -i" print?