Using gzip 1.3.12 / ubuntu 64bit I am getting "No space left on device" yet there appears to be plenty of disk space remaining.
gunzip 03-05-2012--22-52-01.tar.gz
gzip: 03-05-2012--22-52-01.tar: No space left on device
If you run the above gunzip twice in a row the first time it takes a while before showing the error, the second time it happens straight away.
On the other hand if I use tar it works to start with for a certain number of files before giving errors. After the errors I can see some of the files on disk.
tar -zxvf 03-05-2012--22-52-01.tar.gz
<snip>
tar: root/backups/project_x/03-05-2012--22-52-01/data/contentstore/2012/3/29/10/11: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Diskspace:
sudo du -sh /* | sort -gr | head -n 5
752M /usr
424M /var
160K /run
78M /lib
48K /tmp
df -i -h
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 640K 75K 566K 12% /
udev 932K 381 932K 1% /dev
tmpfs 934K 255 934K 1% /run
none 934K 2 934K 1% /run/lock
none 934K 1 934K 1% /run/shm
/dev/xvdb 27M 11 27M 1% /mnt
df -h --total
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 9.9G 6.3G 3.1G 68% /
udev 3.7G 4.0K 3.7G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 160K 1.5G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.7G 0 3.7G 0% /run/shm
/dev/xvdb 414G 199M 393G 1% /mnt
total 432G 6.5G 405G 2%
sudo blkid
/dev/xvda1: LABEL="cloudimg-rootfs" UUID="46e0a6b7-bb53-4d56-aba0-a2a6202d9787" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/xvdb: UUID="a7534fe5-1538-4ebc-b553-7dfc6a37df02" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/xvdc: UUID="a7534fe5-1538-4ebc-b553-7dfc6a37df02" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
Best Answer
What is the question you are asking exactly?
Would indicate that you've run out of disk space. Change the current working directory to another directory mounted on a larger partition and try again ...
Also, bear in mind that
duwon't always matchdf. It is possible for files to be deleted but the handles still remain in use by an application, sodfcan show less disk space available thandureports.