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Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!



On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:51:26PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 11/4/2013 8:30 PM, Tazman Deville wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:43:45PM -0500, Hecber Cordova wrote:
> >>    Hi,
> >>
> >>    Did you check inodes usage? (df -i)
> >>
> >>    I could be inodes availability rather than block availability.
> > 
> > 
> > AHA!
> > 
> > I have no idea what the significance of this is, but
> > df -i gives
> > $ df -i
> > Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda7            1729920 1729920       0  100% /
> > 
> > So, yeah...inodes, but I'm ignorant of what that means,
> > or how to resolve that.
> 
> First it means you're using a filesystem with a small fixed number of
> inodes, obviously EXT.
> 
> Second, you have a serious problem here because it is your root
> filesystem that has run out of inodes.  You need to ask yourself why you
> have 1.7M files in your rootfs.  That's very dumb.  That's what /home
> and /data and other places are to be used for.

I'm not the dummy that filled up my /
Before this, it was barely more than hafl full (well, df -h
shows I'm only using 9.6gb of the 16gb there).
Also, that hdd is old.
I ran fedora core 4 on it.That's how old it is.
Then I tried Ubuntu Dapper Duck on it, and some old PCLinuxOS,
and eventually, when it was already about 3 years old, 
installed Lenny on it, my first Debian (and I'm still here!).
But I formatted it as ext3 when I installed lenny, 
and from there just upgraded to squeeze with apt, so
haven't changed the fs. Haven't had any reason to change it.


So, anyway, after some digging around, I find there are some billions
of log files in /var/log/ for popularity-contest.

Like, this is 0.005% of the output of 
sudo find . -xdev -type f | cut -d "/" -f 2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.2.gz
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.2.gz
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.2.gz.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.2.gz.1.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1
1
popularity-contest.1.1.2.gz.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1.1.2.gz

I've aptitude purged popularity-contest, now.
I checked the logrotate file, and it has a maxage of 7, meaning these
are all a week old or younger, too.
Very, very strange.
Now I have to figure out how to get rid of them.
Even trying to rm -rf a small subset, like *.1.2.gz.1.2.gz.1*
gives me
Argument list too long.

Never seen anything like it...

./taz

> 
> To remedy this you will need to copy files off of the rootfs to another
> filesystem, then delete them from your rootfs to free some of these inodes.
> 
> Food for thought:  your /dev/sda7 is an EXT filesystem of 26GB with 1.7M
> inodes.  XFS would give you ~23M inodes on a 26GB filesystem.
> 
> -- 
> Stan
> 
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