On Friday 18 January 2008 08:53:53 Neil Bird wrote: > On my (ext3, LVM) drive on which I perform backups, I went to copy a > large directory and starting getting loads of out-of-space errors, even > though 'df' reports plenty of room, even to non-root users. > > > $ df -h /usr/backup > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/sata0-backup > 464G 367G 88G 81% /usr/backup > > .. but: > > mv: cannot create regular file `blah': No space left on device > > > Now, I am using rsync to create daily+weekly backups on that drive, so > there are wads of hard links to things several times over. But 'df' should > be able to cope with that, shouldn't it? > > I ran a forced fsck on the drive, but that reported no problems. Any > ideas anyone? Could be you're out of inodes on the filesystem. Try /usr/lib/news/bin/inndf -i /usr/backup This should give you a count of free inodes. Tony > > -- > [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature > [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature > ls: .signature: No such file or directory > [neil@fnx ~]# exit -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
