No space left on device

Fire Hazard · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject: No space left on device

I can no longer get programs like aMule, Gimp, or Mozilla to save files because they say there is no space left. But I have a good 5 gigs of space left. Does gentoo set limits to how much you can hold in your home directory as a default? I'm lost to why I can't save files any more. By the way I'm running 2.6.9-gentoo-r13.
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YetiChick · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 69

It's possible that you've reached the maximum number of files for the filesystem. What filesystem are you using, what is the actual size of it and how many files do you have in total? I've seen people with ... uh... excessive filesharing tendencies... end up with literally millions of temp files laying around on their systems, causing similar problems.

etnoy · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:

I have had that error on my server, the problem was out of inodes as the above post mentioned. df -ih will list your inodes, and how many that are free.
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Fire Hazard · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:19 am Post subject:

fire_hazard@wmd fire_hazard $ df -ih
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 1.1M 289K 773K 28% /
none 63K 1 63K 1% /dev/shm

Looks like thats not the problem. Any clue to what it could be and how to check to see and fix if thats it? Thanks for the help.

P.S. My root is ext3 and my boot is ext2 if it helps.
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