full fs on /tmp but big space in partition

[nibble]

guys, i got this error of No space left in device.

here's my partition
/dev/vg00/lvol2 5119456 49644 4813812 2% /tmp

but when i put a file on it, its says no space left. i dont understand since only 2% is utilized. ive checked the VG's already and evetything is doin fine. /home and /tmp are configure from LVM. using Linux 2.4.21-4 RH AS

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,
Could you please post df -H o/p
Have you deleted some files from this
filesystem recently ?
And those files may have links.
Can you try fsck on that filesystem and check.
By any chance you have not configured the quota for that particular user.
Are you sure you are not copying it to some other directory ? ( Just checking for Human error)
The last but not least case would be try rebooting the system and check if possible.

Regards,

[nibble]

actually, no files has been deleted nor copied. kindly check the attached file

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

I suggest you to reboot machine to single-user mode and run fsck for this fs.

[nibble]

tnx guys, but i already found it. its the inode numbers.

[hien · Accepted solution]

if its an LVM, try checking how was it created. there's a possibility that less inodes were only available. check mke2fs manual. once inodes are all used, full fs will prompt even if the partitiion size is still free.

[Lawrence Staberg]

do a df -Hi to check the inodes...

Many a times a partition does not match the default inode allocation... ie: you place too many small files in the partition...

If the IFree column shows 0 for your partition, you will have to run mke2fs or something similar and allocate more inodes, for mke2fs the option is N=bignumber..