Another "no space left on device" error [solved]

Elfir3 · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

Hi all,

I recently started a new gentoo install. But, when i got my /home/ partition back, i cannot write anything on it as a user.
In facts, it creates the file, then I got the message << write error: No space left on device >>, and leaves the file empty.
When I'm root, I don't get any message, and the file is filled with data.

Sadako · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject:

What is the actual problem, i.e. should there definitely be some free space on the drive?

du -chs /home/*, see if you can figure out where the space is gone.

And how about fsck'ing it? ( :twisted:

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Elfir3 · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

Yeah, there is some

I tried fsck, but it didn't find anything wrong. du didn't tell anything interesting either ...

Sadako · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject:

When you say some, are you talking about around 3-5% free space?

If so, some filesystems reserve at least that much space for the root user only which would explain why you get no errors while writing to it as root.

It really doesn't make much sense on a /home partition, so here's how to get rid of it (assuming it's an ext3 filesystem);

Elfir3 · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

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