Bug 22238

Summary:	/ directory is apparently full but isn't
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Raoul <raoul.behrend>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, smelror
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Raoul 2017-12-19 23:35:23 CET

Description of problem:
The / directory is apparently full, but isn't.

df /
Sys. de fichiers Taille Utilisé Dispo Uti% Monté sur
/dev/sda5          4.9G    4.6G     0 100% /

There should be 300 Mo free. Erasing tmp and unnecessry files do not permit the recover some sapce. Question : How to clean the disk ?

This is the 3nd time it appens. Lats times, I had to reformat the partition and reinstall the system in totality.


Linux rb2 4.9.56-desktop-1.mga6 #1 SMP Thu Oct 12 22:53:48 UTC 2017 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Comment 1 Stig-Ørjan Smelror 2017-12-19 23:46:57 CET

Hi.

On the root (/) file system, there is a certain percent of disk space reserved for the root user. See this discussion for more information:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2009-January/msg00026.html

And I think 5GB for / may be a tad small unless you have separated /usr, /var, /tmp and so on to their separate partitions. It may be a good idea to increase the size of / if possible.

Cheers,
Stig

CC: (none) => smelror

Comment 2 David Walser 2017-12-20 00:45:39 CET

Comment 1 is correct.

Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2017-12-24 03:53:35 CET

Also note that with lots of small files the file system can run out of inodes
before running out of space. Use "df -i" to view inode usage.

See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26598/how-can-i-increase-the-number-of-inodes-in-an-ext4-filesystem
for a discussion of the problem.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins