Re: space left on ext3 (2.6.6-bk3)

[tom st denis]

--- Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On a ext3 fs:
> 
> fast:/mnt/tmp# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3               958488    521864    387936  58% /mnt
> 
> fast:/mnt/tmp# cat /dev/zero > zr
> cat: write error: No space left on device
> 
> fast:/mnt/tmp# ls -l
> total 436624
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     446660608 Jun 18 00:23 zr
> 
> fast:/mnt/tmp# rm zr
> 
> fast:/mnt/tmp# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3               958488    521864    387936  58% /mnt
> 
> Is this an expected behaviour?.. Yeah, it is nice to have more space
> than 
> you think you have, but...

Have you tried running fsck on it?  How many inodes are available.

Tom


		
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