Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 28] No space left on device - but which device?

[Remy Blank]

Ron Leach wrote on 2015-07-04 16:08:
> List, good afternoon, we're puzzled by this error (from our overnight 
> backup) because the backup destination has more than 350 GB free, and 
> the increment would likely have been somewhere between 50MB and 200MB. 
>   It was a 'fatal' error, and the backup ceased there and then.

One possible cause is that you have run out of inodes.

> Here's a df of the machine doing the backup:
> 
> address@hidden;13:50:09;~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md1              2.8G  2.8G   24K 100% /
> tmpfs                 501M     0  501M   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                   10M  792K  9.3M   8% /dev
> tmpfs                 501M     0  501M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/md6              1.8T  1.7T  163G  92% /Data
> /dev/sda1             324M   12M  296M   4% /boot
> /dev/sdb1             313M   16M  281M   6% /boot2
> /dev/md5               38G  2.9G   35G   8% /home
> /dev/md4              949M  4.3M  945M   1% /tmp
> /dev/md2              9.4G  1.2G  8.2G  13% /usr
> /dev/md3              4.7G  1.1G  3.7G  23% /var
> 192.168.0.100:/mnt/R1/bkp100
>                        2.6T  2.1T  367G  86% /mnt/D7bkp100
> address@hidden;13:50:13;~$

Try "df -i".

-- Remy