no space left?

[Timothy Payne]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 21:29, Z wrote:
> 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

Can you do fsck on a mounted volume, it seems I got a warning not to do
it.  But my "superblock" (both) were damaged so I had to reinstall.

T