On Nov 2, 9:40 pm, lapisdecor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is your disk full?
>
> On Nov 1, 6:19 am, maximb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi, all.
>
> > It is my first post to this group, so please be patient if I do not
> > follow an accepted format. Also, if this group is not the right place
> > to ask such a questions, please say so and kindly suggest an
> > alternative.
>
> > I have a legacy software application running on Red Hat 6.1. Yes, it
> > is pretty old. Known, that the filesystem in use is the ext2fs.
>
> > Sometimes, after a few days of running without a problem, the system
> > throws the following error messages as a response to an attempt to
> > save or display the curently running configuration:
>
> > awk: write failure (No space left on device)
> > awk: close failed on file /dev/stdout (No space left on device)
> > echo: error writing to the standard output: No space left on device
>
> > Somewhere I had read an opinion, that such kind of errors can be
> > related to size or avalability of free memory in /tmp directory. Is
> > that correct ?
>
> > Thanks in advance.
> > maximb

Hi.

As far as I understand, the filesystem is RAM-mounted.
I still not quite understand how /dev/stdout file can suffer from lack
of free space... May be the problem arises when the stdout is
redirected to another file.

Thanks for your time.
maximb
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