No space left on device

[Suhas Kamble]

You may be running out of inodes,
do df -i and see what it sees.

~Suhas

Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:
> 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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