I cant create any directory in a ext2 filesystem

i have plenty of space, plenty of inodes, not that many files on it, and no matter what i can't create it!

df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vg_app/lvol1 250G 179G 59G 76% /dir

df -i .
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/vg_app/lvol1 33079296 7805 33071491 1% /dir


find .|wc -l
7796

i can create files, even large files without a problem, and i already run fsck (while umounted) a few times, it didnt solve the issue

anyone have any idea what else can i make to fix this problem?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3

thx

i rebooted the server, and for some reason it fixed the problem

now i can create dirs again

that was strange...

You might want to read up on du http://linux.die.net/man/1/du vs df http://linux.die.net/man/1/df.
From your description it sounds like the classic problem of having 'deleted' a file that is still locked open by the owning process.
In reality, *nix only really unlinks http://linux.die.net/man/1/unlink a file when all processes that have the file open have closed it.
In the meantime, it doesn't show up in eg ls, but it still takes up diskspace.