Re: Is my hard drive FUBAR, or is it dpkg?

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Ben Gertzfield writes:
> I've started getting messages like the following from upgrading
> packages:
> 
> Do you want to install the files fetched [y]:
> Installing files...
> (Reading database ... 28597 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xbase 3.3.2-2 (using .../x11/xbase_3.3.2-3.deb) ...
> xdm and xfs not running, continuing with xbase installation.
> Unpacking replacement xbase ...
> dpkg: error processing debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.3.2-3.deb (--install):
>  error flushing `usr/X11R6/lib/X11/x11perfcomp/fillblnk': No space left on device
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> 
> but the /usr partition has over 400M free:
> 
> [root@everybody:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/x11perfcomp]# df .                    7:09PM
> Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda2            1486371  931336   478226     66%   /usr

What about inodes?  df -i

Regards,

	Joey

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