10 Aug
2006
10 Aug
'06
4:44 p.m.
Tim> I've got a really weird filesystem problem... Tim> I've got a 250GB external USB disk device. It's formatted at ext3. Tim> a 'df -h' yeilds the following: Tim> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on Tim> /dev/sda1 233G 115G 107G 52% /mnt/ext-usb Tim> The weird problem that I'm seeing is that I can't write data to Tim> it anymore. Tim> i.e. Tim> [root@fandango ext-usb]# pwd Tim> /mnt/ext-usb Tim> [root@fandango ext-usb]# touch test Tim> touch: cannot touch `test': No space left on device Tim> [root@fandango ext-usb]# What does 'df -i' yield? It sounds like you're out of inodes on there. Do you have tons and tons of small files on there? John