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Linux disk full ?

Ubuntu 8 server

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/turnkey-root
                      6.4G  3.7G  2.5G  60% /
tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                  247M   76K  247M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             228M   14M  202M   7% /boot
/dev/sda6              12G  158M   11G   2% /storage

mkdir stuff
mkdir: cannot create directory `stuff': No space left on device

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Not sure to understand what the problem is (but I'm by no mean an *nix expert).

Any help appreciated

pclinuxguru

what does "pwd" show?

Alexandre Takacs

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/

(root dir)

pclinuxguru

try "sudo mkdir /stuff"

Just remembered Ubuntu is funky about the root account. It should prompt your for your password (your normal password).

Alexandre Takacs

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Same problem (running as root btw)

I genuinely think I am out of space - if I do a apt-get update

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/security.debian.org_dists_squeeze_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages - open (28: No space left on device) [IP: 149.20.20.6 80]

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But I still seem to have abut 3+ Gb free ??

Alexandre Takacs

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and **sorry** this is a DEBIAN box (my bad)

Seth Simmons

You would get access denied if it was a permissions issue.
Did you try df -hi?
Wonder what the chances are you ran out of inodes.

pclinuxguru

What are the results of "vgdisplay"?

Alexandre Takacs

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Hi again

root@core /tmp# df -hi
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/turnkey-root
                        416K    416K     126  100% /
tmpfs                    63K       4     63K    1% /lib/init/rw
udev                     62K     514     62K    1% /dev
tmpfs                    63K       1     63K    1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1               122K     207    122K    1% /boot
/dev/sda6               755K      18    755K    1% /storage
root@core /tmp# vgdisplay
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               turnkey
  System ID             
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  3
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                2
  Open LV               2
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               7.76 GiB
  PE Size               4.00 MiB
  Total PE              1986
  Alloc PE / Size       1786 / 6.98 GiB
  Free  PE / Size       200 / 800.00 MiB
  VG UUID               9bBMDf-PYoj-eIp3-CvVD-ciRV-Eq73-RydGj4

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Seems I'm out of inodes... not too sure how to solve that though

Seth Simmons

Bingo. I'm not sure if expanding the volume group will add inodes. If not, you would have to move files off there. If you could create another partition and format with a larger inode set then you can relocate your files there.

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Alexandre Takacs

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Seems I will have to learn about LVM this evening...

Thanks for helping pinpoint the problem.