no space left?

[Z]

Timothy Payne wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 21:29, Z wrote:
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>>Dan Trainor - hostinthebox.net wrote:
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>>>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:
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>>>>Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Shu Hung (Koala) um 3:47:
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>>>>>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
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>>>>>
>>>>Especially check /tmp, /var/tmp and /var/log, whether there is huge
>>>>content filling the partition.
>>>>
>>>>Alexander
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>>Do a fsck ont ehpartition when you have a chance too. Your metadata 
>>might be damaged. Happened to me.
>>
>>Z
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>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.
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>T
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Nope. Do it on reboot with /sbin/shutdown -r -F . BACK IT UP FIRST!