failed: No space left on device (28)
 

Hello,

I am getting the following the "failed: No space left on device (28)" error while copying files to the server,

disc usage status is following,

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LVroot 12G 3.9G 7.1G 36% /
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 194M 34M 150M 19% /boot
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LVtmp 3.9G 72M 3.6G 2% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VGdata-LVdata 24G 8.0G 15G 36% /data

df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LVroot 761856 131403 630453 18% /
tmpfs 490585 1 490584 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 51200 39 51161 1% /boot
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LVtmp 256000 32 255968 1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VGdata-LVdata 1572864 1572864 0 100% /data

I am not able to copy any fine under /data directory, but it shows 15G available, could you please suggest me how to handle this.

Hello,

I think there may be Reserved space for root on a filesystem.

Please let me know how to increase the same.

You may have free space but you have no free inodes to allocate it.

The reserved space is not relevant here - you can eliminate it using tune2fs.
Your problem is you have run out inodes as you are apparently aware. If this is an ext[234] filesystem, you must reformat the filesystem (see the mke2fs "-i" option).
Back the current data up, re-format with more inodes, restore, then copy in your new data.

You must have a significant number of files.

I have tried the following, but no luck,

mke2fs -I 128 /dev/mapper/VGdata-LVdata

tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VGdata-LVdata | grep Inode
Inode count: 1572864
Inodes per group: 8192
Inode blocks per group: 256
Inode size: 128

deleted.

Hi,

I have recreated the LVM too, again fails.

Fails?
Does the actual LVM creation fail?
When you created the 15G partition did you create it with more inodes?

Hello,

Thank you for all of you for helping me at right time with good tips. The following command helped me to get rid of this issue.

mke2fs -i 8192 /dev/mapper/VGdata-LVdata