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No space left on device

I am getting the error "No space left on device" when i tried to scp some files to a centos machine,

tried to check:

[root@...]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 18G   18G     0 100% /

And when I do

du -sh / -> it gives only 5G

[... ~]$ df -i /
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
                     4685824  209516 4476308    5% /

seems like file system is full. How can i find which one is taking these much size?

Solution

  • Such difference between the output of du -sh and df -h may happen if some large file has been deleted, but is still opened by some process. Check with the command lsof | grep deleted to see which processes have opened descriptors to deleted files. You can restart the process and the space will be freed.