Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>

[Vitaly V. Ch]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Vitaly,
>
> Thanks so much for your reply, with / having 87M free the gunzip was
> working fine. But with /cdocs partition even though we have 139M  free
> it was failing.

You must NOT base only on info from df. You also need info from dumpfs
or tunefs:

# tune2fs -l /dev/hda1
tune2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
...
Free blocks:              677266
Free inodes:              1226276
...

in this output You can see rest of available files quantity as "free inodes".

>
> /:lz>df -kh /
> Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
> /                      963M   819M    87M    91%    /
> /:lz>gunzip -l omcran_r31_v0_92_helpfiles.tar.gz
>         compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
>           25437089            85783552  70.3%
> omcran_r31_v0_92_helpfiles.tar
> /:lz>gunzip omcran_r31_v0_92_helpfiles.tar.gz
> /:lz>echo $?
> 0
> /:lz>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Prabha
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vitaly V. Ch [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:40 AM
> To: Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi ,
>>
>>
>>
>> We are facing problem with gunzip command ,it is reporting no space
> left
>> on device.
>>
>>
>>
>> error
>>
>> gunzip: omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar: No space left on device
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Below are the details,
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. @/>gzip -V
>>
>> gzip 1.3.3-patch.1
>>
>> (2002-03-08)
>>
>> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
>>
>> Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
>>
>> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>
>> You may redistribute copies of this program
>>
>> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
>>
>> For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
>>
>> Compilation options:
>>
>> DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H
>> HAVE_LSTAT
>>
>> Written by Jean-loup Gailly.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. @/cdocs>gunzip -l omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar.gz
>>
>>
>>
>> Result:
>>
>> compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
>>
>> 25826218            85349888    69.7% omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar
>>
>>
>>
>> So the free space required to gunzip is 81Mb
>>
>>
>>
>> /cdocs:lz>df -kh /cdocs
>>
>> Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
>>
>> /cdocs                 610M   416M   139M    75%    /cdocs
>
> It's like wrong. You exceed maximum quantity of files on Your
> filesystem.
>>
>> /cdocs:lz>gunzip omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar.gz
>>
>>
>>
>> gunzip: omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar: No space left on device
>>
>> /cdocs:lz>
>>
>>
>>
>> Even though we have 139Mb free space we got no space left on device
>> error.
>>
>>
>>
>> Your quick help on this will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Prabha
>>
>>
>
> \\wbr Vitaly Chernookiy
>

\\wbr Vitaly Chernookiy