cp: No space left on device, but df does not agree!
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cp: No space left on device, but df does not agree!
Thought I was past the stage of posting such basic questions but obviously I am not...
I have started to get "No space left on device" errors when writing to files in /home (/dev/hda9 on my box). But df says there is plenty of space and lots of free i-nodes:
It turned out to be a corrupted file system. Calling e2fsck from single used mode fixed it. I spotted that when the system seemed out of space, a kernel error messge from the file system module reported that there was an ambiguity in something called a block group.
I didn't think of running e2fsck because it was run when the machine rebotted. Obviously it get run in such a way that not all errors get fixed.
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