file system is full : But df -k shows space available

[tientoan88]

Dear Experts,



We are using Digital Unix 4.0d on Alpha DS-20 E.

/var/adm/messages showed the following error



Jul 24 19:58:37 cbehotbill2 vmunix: /BSCSprod: write failed, file system is full

Jul 24 19:58:38 cbehotbill2 last message repeated 2 times



But df -k showed

BSCS_dmn#BSCSprod 10297944 972004 8644656 11% /BSCSprod





Why has this error occured and wht is the remedy for this .





Regds

Gerald Wilson

More Information:

1. If the drive is completely crammed full (no space left) I can imagine a situation where this would cause it to require more parity space than what's available
2. umask Users file creation mask umount Unmount a device unalias Remove an alias • uname Print system information unexpand Convert spaces to tabs uniq Uniquify files
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4. The new administrator deletes the file, but the system still complains that the partition is full
5. The df -k command displays free space in a file system in 1 KB units

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[huyhieu_358]

One possibility is that you are out of inodes. Look at your man pages for "df" there may be a "df -i" or a "df -e" or something that can show you the number of inodes remaining.



On HP-UX and Solaris this reasoning would apply to the older filesystems, but not to veritas filesystems. Veritas filesystems will dynamically allocate more inodes as needed. I don't know your system and I can't tell you if your system will dymanically allocate inodes or not.



But being out of inodes will cause the message that you are getting. The solution would be to rebuild the filesystem with more inodes.

More Information:

1. To understand space reclamation, you have to remember that when you assign a LUN to a host, the host creates its own file system on the LUN and does
2. Search through the options and tell it to use all the space available on the big new drive, use the NTFS file System and make it bootable
3. my computer shows that my c drive full and prompts to delete unnecessary files to save the space in the c drive(20 GB)
4. Add an entry for the swap file to the /etc/vfstab file that specifies the full path name of the file, and designates swap as the file system type, like this:
5. One of the most important jobs of the Oracle DBA in a UNIX environment is ensuring that none of the UNIX file systems becomes full

[hajime192]

Dear Sir,

df -ik showed %Iused 8%

Compaq says that Max inodes can be 2 power 31.

They it is a problem with max extents.

Is it so?



regds

Wilson

More Information:

1. And I have added 1 GB(1024 MB) of free space to primary file system of 'abc'
2. If nbfree is 0, you're in trouble - no free blocks means no more writing to the filesystem, regardless of how much space is actually still available
3. The default configuration for Condor places each machine in its own UID domain and file system domain, using the full hostname of the machine as the
4. Functions are also available to manipulate the filesystem's bad blocks list
5. UBIFS reserves some space for the superuser (root), which means that when the file-system is full for normal users, there is still little space
6. Because of the addition of multiple patches to the system while keeping the full history and rollback possibility, the file system can grow in size
7. The size of the logging space is based on the size of the file system, and equals 1 MB per 1 GB of file system space, up to 64 MB
8. This File-System plugin shows contents of Windows Clipboard as a file-system: different clipboard formats are presented as files of different extensions: text as
9. Time Machine keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac--system files, digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, documents, and

[thuydung7]

Just a thought.... some actions such as vi open the file in a different location as a temporary location while it is being worked with. I had this same thing and it turned out that the temp location which was on a different partition was full....so it wasn't that where I was was full...just where the file was temporarilly saved while I worked with it was...



Might not be anything to do with - but worth checking. Really depends what you were doing when you got the error.

More Information:

1. When a zFS compatibility mode aggregate becomes full, you can make more space available
2. Due to the following error " /tmp: File system full, swap space limit exceeded
3. As the nodes concurrently search for the remaining free space on the file system
4. The Linux df command is used to show free disk space on Linux hard drives and network filesystems
5. In order to capture information about the unused space that exists between files, one has to use lower-level tools that bypass the file system
6. X, the maximum amount of anonymous memory a system could use was limited by available swap space
7. "Despite having published details on technologies like the Google File System, Google has not released the software as open source and shows little interest in selling it
8. So, to manage disk space efficiently, the GFS organizes data into 64-megabyte "chunks," which are roughly analogous to the "blocks" on a conventional file system
9. byte is written, the size of the file is kept updated to the exact byte, but no more space is allocated until those first four sectors are completely full

[Broi]

Dear Sir,

There were around 8,50,000 files in the file system.

Hence this error

According to Compaq Support,

On Filesystems that consist primarily of small files and where applications regularly create and delete very large numbers of these small files, ADVFS can run out of metadata space.

In Tru64 v5.* with AdvFs type '4' domains, the way BMT works has been redesigned to eliminate the possibility of exhaustion, however ADVFS type'3' domains still exists in Tru64 v5.*



Thanks for the suggestions



Regds

Wilson

More Information:

1. Specifically, this is the amount of disk space available in the directory specified in the Condor configuration files by the EXECUTE macro, minus
2. on your storage system and the storage system shows the volume as full, it could allocate additional space even though the host view of the LUN shows plenty
3. Why is my GFS filesystem reporting "no space left on device" even though there is plenty of space available?
4. When the performance of a system slows down, check the amount of swap space available to see if it has decreased
5. This is how BeyondRAID is able to remove the need to manually expand/contract the file system as more space becomes available or is removed
6. If a system's performance is good, use swap -s to see how much swap space is available
7. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 78012484 17606992 56442660 24% / /dev/hda1 101086 16400 79467 18% /boot
8. of 4Kb when creating the filesystem thus having double amount of inodes, look at man page) and move your files over to the new filesystem if you have the space available to do that
9. Ability to respect screen space reserved by other applications; Supports adding virtual file system objects such as Control Panel items