[ale] Help - DEB Pkg Hell

[Jeff Gehlbach]

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On May 21, 2011, at 7:58 AM, JD wrote:

> It claims there is no space left on the device ... there is over 1G free.

This message is pointing to what I would bet is the actual problem: your filesystem has run out of inodes.

> $ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              3890452   2607088   1085732  71% /

Try running "df -i" to display inode usage.  Example:

jeffg at mail1:~$ df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda5            60653568 1001908 59651660    2% /
tmpfs                 507485       4  507481    1% /lib/init/rw
udev                  506300     532  505768    1% /dev
tmpfs                 507485       1  507484    1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              18072     243   17829    2% /boot

This often happens as a result of having one or a handful of directories full of many tiny files.  A good place to start your search is usually /var.

- -jeff
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