400 device full when not

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Nathan Ridge wrote:

> 400 No space left on device writing article file -- throttling
>
> does anyone know why I would be getting this error when it is not the case,
> the drive is only around 66% capacity, if I restart the server it will work
> for a random short period of time then start failing again. Any help
> appreciated.

Check `df -i` -- You're probably out of inodes; traditional spool uses a
ton of small files and so you can use up inodes before the drive gets
full.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org