On Samstag 08 Mai 2010, Crístian Viana wrote:
> hi everyone,
> 
> something weird is happening on my system. I can't create new files, it
> says "No space left on device", but the disk has several gigabytes of free
> space! the output of "df -h" is:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> rootfs                 35G   23G   11G  69% /
> /dev/root              35G   23G   11G  69% /
> rc-svcdir             1.0M  120K  904K  12% /lib64/rc/init.d
> udev                   10M  240K  9.8M   3% /dev
> shm                   974M  1.1M  973M   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda6             157G  133G   17G  89% /home
> /dev/sda1              35G   28G  7.6G  79% /mnt/windows
> 
> I'm running out of space on the home partition. it says it has 17 GB of
> free space, but right now there's only 330 MB available (I wrote a small
> program to create the largest file it can). this was happening before,
> when I had a few gigabytes free, but now the [fake] available space is
> growing and I'm losing space on my disk each day! where should I start
> looking for to solve this problem? the filesystem of the home partition is
> ext4.
> 
> I don't even know if this is related to Gentoo, but that's the OS I'm
> running :-) I'm running ~amd64, by the way.
> 
> regards.

run out of inodes?

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