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
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
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Comment 1 is correct.
Resolution: (none) => INVALIDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED
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.
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