[ale] no space left on disk that's 65% full??

[Bill Sirinek]

You might be out of inodes. Do a df -i and see whats up.

Bill

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 jenn at colormaria.com wrote:

> I am running a RH 7.1 server that has begun to report my /var partition as
> being full whenever I try to send email.
> 
> df -k reports over 1Gb free on that partition, syslog is still logging
> away but no wierd messages, and if I delete anything df updates
> appropriately.  If I delete something, I can 'touch test' and no
> complaints.  As soon as I try to send mail (using exim on this box for
> sending, no incoming accepted) I get told that /var/spool/exim/incoming is
> out of room.  I can also no longer 'touch test', out of space on device.
> 
> Seems like it's an exim problem, but since it's not running as a daemon,
> I've nothing to kill.  Other than a reboot, anyone got any suggestions?
> 
> thanks!
> jenn
> 
> 
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