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. > > [solo...@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. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.11.4 (KDE 4.2.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2009.1 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
