/: write failed, filesystem is full

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, jojo wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a problem with the filesystem. I am always
getting those "/: write failed, filesystem is
full" errors. If I have a look on df the root has 109%
Capacity. How could that be?
> I had a file in /root with 3.3G that I have now deleted
but with no success. The df output is as before. I am using
Raid1(Mirror) with two 80Gig ST380011A/3.04 HDs.

The filesystem always reserves a bit of space above 100%.
Normal users can fill
the filesystem up to 100%, and the root user can go to 110%
(if I remember 
orrectly). Hence the 109%.

> du -hd1
> 1.5K    ./dev
> 2.5G    ./usr
> 555M    ./var
> 885M    ./www
> 2.4M    ./stand
> 1.5M    ./etc
> 2.0K    ./cdrom
> 2.0K    ./dist
> 7.3M    ./bin
> 18M    ./boot
> 2.0K    ./mnt
> 2.0K    ./proc
> 18M    ./root
> 21M    ./sbin
> 24K    ./tmp
> 76K    ./cgb
> 4.0G    .
>
> The du output does not agree with the df output. Where
are the 4.9Gig of / ?
> What can I do? Somebody had this problem before?

As you can see, the contents of /var, /www and /usr are also
counted, which are
on another file system. You might try du -hx / in order to
see only the
contents of / and the directories on that file system.

Anyway, it seems as if your 3.3G file hasn't disappeared,
since there is still
4.0G in the root directory...What kind of file was it?

Yours,

   Jaap Boender

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On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Jaap Boender wrote:

> Anyway, it seems as if your 3.3G file hasn't
disappeared, since there is 
> still
> 4.0G in the root directory...What kind of file was it?

Oh, wait, I read you wrongly. The file from /root has
disappeared all right
(only 18M in there). The 4.0G you read includes the total of
everything below
it, such as the /usr and /www and so on. If you only want
the / file system,
try the -x option, as I said.

Sorry,

   Jaap
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