it doesn't seem so :-( Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda6 20856832 108698 20748134 1% /home
I didn't know that the filesystem could run out of inodes before the disk space itself! thanks for the information :-) On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 05/08/2010 09:21 PM, 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 filesystem probably ran out of inodes. "df -i /home" will show inode > usage. This can happen when you have many small files; they eat inodes but > not storage space. > > >
