Re: Free space question

[bren@sio.midco.net]

Ok. I've upgraded to 2.4.18 with XFS 1.1. Same results...

df -i reports:

/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
                      952000  117248  834752   12% /mnt

df -h:

/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
                      948M  745M  204M  79% /mnt

Yet simply touching a new file returns:

touch: file: No space left on device

I'm stumped on this one. Is there a better way to check free space and inode use?

Quoting Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>:

> 
> Did you ran out of inodes perhaps? I think a mail spool would be
> susceptible to this.
> 
> I don't know if the inode usage is representative. I believe the default
> is 25% of the fs.
> 
> Can you try a newer kernel? I know steve had a fix to make it give back
> space faster under memory pressure. Normally it locates a larger chunk to
> reduce fragmentation but you need that space back fast in such a case.
> 
> Cheers
> Seth
> 
>