[ale] no space left on disk that's 65% full??

[James P. Kinney III]

Michael Hirsch had a similar problem a while back (a year ago or so). He
was running reiserfs. I don't remember all the details, but reiserfs was
not reporting all the space as available due to its journalling/loging
process. If you are running a journalling file system, I would recommend
you start looking at its idea of "full". The log may be full and
blocking on writes to the real file system.

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:58, jenn at colormaria.com wrote:
> I am running a RH 7.1 server that has begun to report my /var partition as
> being full whenever I try to send email.
> 
> df -k reports over 1Gb free on that partition, syslog is still logging
> away but no wierd messages, and if I delete anything df updates
> appropriately.  If I delete something, I can 'touch test' and no
> complaints.  As soon as I try to send mail (using exim on this box for
> sending, no incoming accepted) I get told that /var/spool/exim/incoming is
> out of room.  I can also no longer 'touch test', out of space on device.
> 
> Seems like it's an exim problem, but since it's not running as a daemon,
> I've nothing to kill.  Other than a reboot, anyone got any suggestions?
> 
> thanks!
> jenn
> 
> 
> 
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