[SOLVED] Error : no space left on device

kuddush · 03-09-2011, 05:43 AM

I am using RHEL 5. When i try to copy any file from desktop or into desktop, i get error msg "NO SPACE LEFT ON DEVICE".
could anyone help me plz.

corp769 · 03-09-2011, 05:59 AM

Follow what it says.... No space left on device? Look at the output of the df command, post the output here if you can.

Josh

kuddush · 03-10-2011, 12:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769

Follow what it says.... No space left on device? Look at the output of the df command, post the output here if you can.

Josh

output of df command:-

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 4.8G 4.7G 0 100% /
/dev/sda7 1.9G 190M 1.7G 11% /var
/dev/sda5 7.6G 3.0G 4.3G 41% /usr
/dev/sda3 9.5G 2.4G 6.7G 27% /opt
/dev/sda2 48G 27G 19G 60% /home
/dev/sda1 99M 22M 73M 23% /boot
tmpfs 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm

corp769 · 03-10-2011, 01:03 AM

Well from what your output says, sda6 is full. More less, your root partition. Do you store a lot of files in there? I highly recommend you don't, and store your files in your home directory.

EricTRA · 03-10-2011, 01:04 AM

Hello,

Your desktop and related files should be located in /home and you don't have a problem with that partition for as far as I can see. Can you run the following and post output please:

Code:

du -h / | grep ^[0-9.]*G

That will give you a list of directories which size is more than 1Gb so that we can try to filter out what's happening.

Kind regards,

Eric

mesiol · 03-10-2011, 03:04 AM

Hi,

possibly he is doing his work as root user?

kuddush · 03-11-2011, 12:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mesiol

Hi,

possibly he is doing his work as root user?

Dear

I have one more problem
when i start pc, then after starting some services when reach 'starting cups' takes more time for starting.

mesiol · 03-11-2011, 12:39 AM

Hi,

did you solve your disk space problem?

Only telling us cups start is slow is a little bit less to help. Did you meassure some time? Did you stop/start cups manually and checked cups logfiles if there are any interesting entries?

kuddush · 03-11-2011, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769

Well from what your output says, sda6 is full. More less, your root partition. Do you store a lot of files in there? I highly recommend you don't, and store your files in your home directory.

Thank u very much

EricTRA · 03-11-2011, 01:32 AM

Hello,

You marked your thread as solved. Do you mind posting what was the cause of your problem so that others with similar problems can try your solution?

Kind regards,

Eric

corp769 · 03-11-2011, 01:35 AM

Yes, I would like to know too