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From: briang@access5.digex.net (Brian G.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: File System Full?
Date: 4 Aug 1996 10:33:20 -0400
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
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In article <32025542.4704@vfr.interceptor.com>,
Thumper! <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com> wrote:
>All of a sudden I'm getting the following errors:
>
>Aug  2 12:12:58 milam root: > uid 0 on /: file system full 
>
>but if I run a df, I get:
>
>Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/sd0a        9727     6054     3186    66%    /
>/dev/sd0h      636135   397423   206905    66%    /usr
>/dev/sd1a     4052972  2921337   928986    76%    /public
>
>I just now rmdir'd /tmp and symlinked it to /usr/tmp and rebooted, but
>that's not solving the problem.  I'm not getting any filesystem errors
>from fsck, so basically, I'm lost at this point.

Run a "df -i" and it wil show you how many inodes are available on
the filesystem as well:

bash# df -i
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted
on
/dev/wd0a      396527   317253    59447    84%    3322   94596     3%   /
/dev/wd0h      429295   358089    49741    88%   20726   84872    20%   /usr
/dev/wd2a     1939861   698347  1144520    38%  233822  732832    24%   /news1
/dev/wd3a     1998213  1305520   592782    69%   40700  450818     8%   /news2
/dev/sd0a     1023076    77237   894685     8%    2811  246787     1%   /www
/dev/sd1a      994164        0   944455     0%       1  479229     0%   /mnt

If you run out of inodes, you won't be able to create any more files in
the filesystem, even if you have many megabytes available. 

	- Brian G.