[ale] bizarre error

[Geoffrey]

Have you got a bunch of files?  Might be out of inodes??

John Wells wrote:
> Yup.  Logged in as root and still no luck.
> 
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> ---------  Original message --------
> From: Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> To: John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com>, ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: RE: [ale] bizarre error
> Date: 04-15-02 23:26
> 
> 
>>Maybe you have reserved space for root.  And that is the remaining 598M.
>>
> 
> Are you logged in as root when you try the mkdir?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:37 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] bizarre error
> 
> 
> Ok, bear with me.  I've been coding for around 20 hours straight and running
> solely on high powered espressos.  Around two hours ago, I abandoned putting
> the grounds through the maker and started scooping spoonfuls into my mouth
> ;-).
> 
> Just as I was peaking on that adrenaline rush that only coding can bring, I
> ran into some weird errors.  I ran across Boa-Constructor last night and
> decided to install it and try it out while working on my latest project.
> However, as I was pulling down the latest code from cvs for wxPython, I got
> a &quot;no space left on device&quot; error.
> 
> Hmm.  Didn't make sense, as I had quite a bit of room last time I checked.
> A quick df revealed the following:
> 
> [/home/jb]-)df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb3             7.5G  6.6G  598M  92% /
> none                  124M     0  124M   0% /dev/shmt
> 
> Everything looks good.  However, when I try to do:
> 
> [/home/jb]-)mkdir test1
> mkdir: cannot create directory 'test1': No space left on device
> 
> It seems I've run into this before but I have no idea what I did to resolve
> it.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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