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@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 45 min. ago

'No Space Left on Device' With 50GB Free Means You're Out of Inodes, and df -i Shows It

https://lockergnome.com/no-space-left-on-device-with-free-disk-out-of-inodes-df-i/

#sysadmin #ext4 #inodes #linux

Chris Pirillo, sketched in blue ballpoint on a ruled index card, pulls an overstuffed drawer from a card catalog while the rest of the room stands empty.

'No Space Left on Device' With 50GB Free Means You're Out of Inodes, and df -i Shows It

An on-call engineer traced a Linux server's 'No space left on device' errors to inode exhaustion from over a million empty log files, while df -h still showed 50GB free.

#inodes #ext4 #sysadmin #linux

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@mdione@en.osm.town 16 min. ago

@ChrisPirillo or too much reserved space :)