On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:09:45 +0200, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 19:08 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 16:17:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:10 PM Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I have PORTAGE_TMPDIR on /tmp, which is a 24GB tmpfs. Last night, > > > > an > > > > update failed with an out of space error. df showed only 440MB > > > > free > > > > but du and ndcu both showed well under 1GB in use (including > > > > hidden > > > > files). this has happened on the odd occasion in the past and the > > > > only solution appears to be to reboot. Of course, that means I > > > > cannot > > > > provide any more information until it happens again. > > > > > > > > Has anyone else experienced this or, hopefully, resolved it > > > > without > > > > rebooting? > > > > > Hey Neil, > > > > > > Yeah had this a few times. Always turns out to be deleted files > > > that > > > something still has a handle on > > > > Hah! I never thought of that one. I'll try that next time it happens. > > > > > Another common case is that it runs out of inodes, not space, > especially if df actually says there is free spaces. Check > df -i /tmp
It was not inodes, df was showing close to 100% full. The problem was as Alan suggested, deleted files still locked. -- Neil Bothwick Dolly Parton-- silicone based life
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