On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Miernik wrote: > Miernik <public@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And trying to write any more files gives "No space left on device" message, > > while only 8% of the device is used: > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda1 4120356 305988 3605064 8% /mnt/sda1 > > And the device really has the 4 GB: > > debian105:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda > dd: writing to `/dev/sda': No space left on device > 8376322+0 records in > 8376321+0 records out > 4288676352 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 4145.71 seconds, 1.0 MB/s > debian105:~# > > And no error was encountered while doing this dd write. > Neither in dmesg, nor in kern.log. Everything was fine. This is a little misleading. You are comparing the "df" output for /dev/sda1 with a transfer to /dev/sda. Furthermore the units are different; df uses 1-KB blocks and dd uses 512-byte blocks. It would help to see the output from "fdisk -l /dev/sda". Alan Stern _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
