solved (was Re: partition full (or not)

[shlomo solomon]

Thanks for the various suggestions. But the problem turned out to be much 
simpler. It seems that a couple of days ago, something went wrong during a 
backup job to a removeable USB disk. I think I know how it happened, but that 
is not relevant. The important thing is that the USB disk was unmounted in the 
middle of the job and as a result, about 13 Gb of files were written to the / 
partition instead of to the removeable drive and that completely filled the 
partition.


On Tuesday August 11 2009, shlomo solomon wrote:
> On Tuesday August 11 2009, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> > On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:20 PM, shlomo solomon wrote:
> > > I´m getting disk full messages on /var. According to df, the /
> > > partition
> > > (/dev/sda1) is full, but du shows about 90% free space. Kdirstat
> > > also shows
> > > 90% free. I tried booting from a live CD and the partition is only
> > > about 10%
> > > full.
> > >
> > > Any ideas what´s going on here and how to fix it?
> >
> > out of inodes? df -i?
> >
> > Geoff.
>
> For some strange reason, df -i doesn´t give any useful info.
>
> [solomon at shlomo1 ~]$ df -i
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1                  0       0       0    -  /
> /dev/sda6                  0       0       0    -  /boot
> /dev/sda11                 0       0       0    -  /data1
> /dev/sda12                 0       0       0    -  /data2
> << snip snip >>
>
> But I doubt that´s the problem, because, as I wrote, when I boot from a
> live CD, the partition is almost empty. And, in any case, the partition
> only has /bin, /etc, /lib, /opt, /var, and other standard things. So I
> don´t see any reason to run out of inodes.


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