No space left on device

Padiyath Sreekumaran kumar.padiyath at psi.ch
Thu Nov 15 14:42:53 UTC 2007


Hello,
I have the following configuration of a Linux machine.

# uname -a

Linux test01 2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 22 16:15:42 CDT 2005
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

#df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             9.7G  5.5G  3.8G  60% /
/dev/hda5              27G  1.6G   24G   7% /License
/dev/hda1             124M   25M   93M  21% /boot
none                  250M     0  250M   0% /dev/shm

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77536 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       260    131008+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2           261     20577  10239768   83  Linux
/dev/hda3         20578     21617    524160   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4         21618     77536  28183176    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5         21618     77536  28183144+  83  Linux

When I try to creste a file on / file system, I get the following error.
# touch a
No space left on device

Any idea why I get this message? I removed an existing SW(RPM file)
and want to install the latest version of the same SW without success.
Then I tried the command "touch a" without success. 
I looked in /var/log and removed some old log files(not big one)
Still no success.

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Kumar

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