It's also possible that there were no more iNodes available for that directory. It will give false "volume full" type of errors when it's actually just too many files/folders within a directory.
(This used to happen a LOT in the ancient DOS days in the root directory... max file count=255!!) Bill -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: June 7, 2011 3:48 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Query regarding an issue been faced in TOMCAT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Srilalitha, On 6/7/2011 4:54 AM, Srilalitha Bijumalla wrote: > This issue got solved when we deleted some folders from a directory > which was mapped to tomcat in conf. So, you *did* run out of disk space. > But we are still not able to analyse why this issue has occurred, > Disk space was available and permissions were also provided and > tomcat was not started from backup directory > > Need to find how the folders linked in conf could create a low disk > space error It would happen if you had the following situation: $ mount ext4fs on / type ext4fs (rw) ext4fs on /global/backup (rw) ext4fs on /global/backup/tomcat-5.5.23 (rw) $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ext4fs 50G 20G 30G 40% / ext4fs 50G 20G 30G 40% /global/backup ext4fs 50G 50G 50G 100% /global/backup/tomcat-5.5.23 Check all your filesystem mappings. Something tells me the computer is right, here. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3ugHAACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PA4tACgwuqYa2RLqBnlszoZmqkUiWBc KU0Anj6yIfynq5hNoyFnP7wbOcHtYJHs =KbGd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org