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Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space

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On Thursday, 2 February 2017 10:05:58 PYST Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Kynn,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 10:43:37AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 06:42:39PM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately, I'll never know what the problem was.
> > > 
> > > Do you use btrfs?
> > 
> > Not that I'm aware of.  (FWIW, if I run `mount | grep -i btrfs` (as root),
> > I get no output.)
> 
> Okay, so not a btrfs issue.
> 
> > > What does "df -i" report now, after your reboot when things are
> > > working?
> > > 
> >     # df -i
> >     Filesystem       Inodes   IUsed    IFree IUse% Mounted on
> >     /dev/sda5      24264704 1464023 22800681    7% /
> 
> …and that doesn't show as being anywhere near full, so it most
> likely wasn't that either.
> 
> Well I suppose it could have been processes holding open deleted
> files, though it would have to have been some really big files in
> that case, as your filesystem didn't show as being anywhere near
> full.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy

let me guess:

facts:
/var is on the same partition as /
there is plenty of space and there are free i-nodes but anyway you got error 
apt-get resulted in "no space left on device"
you rebooted and the error disappeared

=>

/ was mounted as r/o for some reason (unclean filesystem e.g.)

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"No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2017-01-31 14:10 +0100
  Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-01-31 14:30 +0100
  Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2017-01-31 14:30 +0100
  Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2017-01-31 14:30 +0100
    Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 00:50 +0100
      Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-02-01 13:30 +0100
        Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 16:50 +0100
          Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-02-02 11:10 +0100
            Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2017-02-02 13:30 +0100
  Re: "No space left on device" error, but df shows plenty of space Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-01-31 14:30 +0100

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