Try a "df -i". You will find that you have run out of inodes.
Then go look at /var/log/mail. You will find it full of 10000 files.
An update to logrotate may solve the problem, but it did not for me (on
LM 7.1).
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I've got a problem here that isn't making any sense to me. This morning
> one of the leg messages reported that there wasn't any more space left on
> /var. that's ok cause it wasn't any big deal to fix that. what I did have
> a problem with is the difference free space that is being reported by two
> different programs on the system.
>
> df reports it this way:
>
> [mdw1982@mdw1982 mdw1982]$ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5 494M 156M 338M 32% /
> /dev/hda8 7.3G 1.1G 6.2G 16% /home
> /dev/hda1 1.7G 1.4G 297M 82% /mnt/win_c
> /dev/hdc1 652M 161M 491M 25% /mnt/win_c2
> /dev/hdc5 1.8G 92k 1.8G 0% /mnt/win_d
> /dev/hda7 2.9G 2.1G 798M 73% /usr
> /dev/hdc6 787M 757M 30M 96% /var <-- the critical reading
> /proc/bus/usb 197M 197M 0 100% /proc/bus/usb
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> ...and du reports it this way:
>
> [root@mdw1982 mdw1982]# du -h --max-depth=1 /
> 4.5M /bin
> 266k /dev
> 16M /etc
> 36M /lib
> 1.5G /mnt
> 0 /net
> 512 /opt
> 4.0M /tmp
> 469M /var <-- the critical reading
> 2.3G /usr
> 6.0M /boot
> 1.1G /home
> 0 /misc
> 1.0k /proc
> 6.7M /sbin
> 49M /root
> 512 /.automount
> 512 /.gnome_private
> 1.0k /.gnome
> 5.6G /
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> What really has me stuck is the different readings I'm getting on /var.
> Can any shed a little light on this?
>
> Xwc calculated /var and came up with essentially the same answer as du
> did.
>
> thanks,
>
> Mark
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