disk full message when there is space

[Quoc-Hoang Nguyen]

Someone can help me about this message

vxfs: mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/vg00/lvol4 file system full (1 block extent)
.Pass phrase appears good. .
Disk full.


when I want to uncrypt a pgp file.
But, in my system, this volume has place
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol4 524288 74216 424210 15% /tmp

and with list directory,

drwxrwxrwx 14 bin bin 234496 Apr 4 14:32 tmp



Note that the size of my encrypted file is 143663356 bytes

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

You have apllications which they write temporary in /tmp ?

[Patrick Wallek]

It appears that when it is trying to de-crypt the file that you are running out of space. Since it cannot successfully de-crypt the file, it will error out and you will have space show available. If it were successful in decrypting, you would have 2 copies of the file, the encrypted and the decrypted version.

Free up some space, or go to a larger filesystem and you will be successful.

[John Bolene]

The encrypted file must not be in /tmp since only 74 meg is used and it is 144 meg is size.

The unencrypt may be putting temp files in /tmp but I would find it hard to believe that they would take so much room as to use the rest of the space available in /tmp.

While you are doing the unencrypt, can you in another window do bdf's to see if /tmp is getting lower and then gets larger?

[Mona Buck]

do a bdf -i to check your inodes. I've had that before....