Neil Bird wrote:
On my (ext3, LVM) drive on which I perform backups, I went to copy a
large directory and starting getting loads of out-of-space errors, even
though 'df' reports plenty of room, even to non-root users.
$ df -h /usr/backup
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/sata0-backup
464G 367G 88G 81% /usr/backup
.. but:
mv: cannot create regular file `blah': No space left on device
If you have a lot of small files you might run out of inodes before
using all the space. Try 'df -i'.
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Les Mikesell
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