Wow...I'm on a run...

I've got something really weird going on here. I'm using Wget to retreive QMail. However, when running the download I get;

> wget http://cr.yp.to/software/qmail-1.03.tar.gz
--08:46:53-- http://cr.yp.to/software/qmail-1.03.tar.gz
=> `qmail-1.03.tar.gz'
Connecting to cr.yp.to:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 220,668 [application/x-gzip]

0K -> ....
Cannot write to `qmail-1.03.tar.gz' (No space left on device).

This is really weird...as when I go into the sysatem and check for free space, it comes up with;

Size 33293164 kB / Free 26804452

Is it me, or is something really weird going on here?

Andy (mod)
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Where are you trying to save to?

I tried doing it into the root (i.e. /), but when thatr didn't work I wasnt too worried. I them cd'ed into the /home/ directory, and tried it there. That is where it says I have all that space available :(

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/root/ and /home/ are both saying full?

Try:

du

....in both directories and see what shows up.

Try df and see where your space if left. You might have allocated a small partition for your /home directory or something.

- wil

In root, trying 'du';

loads of information about other folders, but the part I would imagine is important said: 235196

Doing the same for 'home' said; 4797496



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Never mind..it seems to have sorted itself out now. Very odd.

Thanks both of you

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Out of interest, what was the output of df?

- wil

That won't show any info for /root/

Yes, it does?

- wil

Ugh no it doesn't...why do you argue with everything I say

Because I don't understand what you're saying. Not arguing. Here's a sample output from a df command on one of my boxes.


What did you mean by "That won't show any info for /root/"?

- wil

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What did you mean by "That won't show any info for /root/"?
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Do you see /root/ listed when you do "df" ? ...no, hence "That won't show any info for /root/"

That's because I have no folder called /root/ on my system.

- wil

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8 521748 444812 50432 90% /
/dev/hda1 23302 3485 18614 16% /boot
/dev/hda10 33293164 4800220 26801704 16% /home
/dev/hda9 256667 36 243379 1% /tmp
/dev/hda5 2071384 1724976 241184 88% /usr
/dev/hda6 1257048 16604 1176588 2% /var

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Hi,

Sorry Paul, your wrong on this one. =) /root is in the / file system, and from Andy's output, it's showing 90% full and only 50k free. So if you tried to save qmail in /root you would not have enough space.

Another nice thing is to try df -h and it will show you in "human readable output:

[root@alex /root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 1.9G 363M 1.5G 19% /
/dev/hda2 510M 1.5M 503M 0% /tmp
/dev/hda3 16G 7.4G 8.8G 46% /usr
/dev/hda4 18G 13G 4.3G 76% /home
[root@alex /root]#

So you can see how many gigs are free on each partition.

Cheers,

Alex
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Sorry Paul, your wrong on this one. =) /root is in the / file system,
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Yes but / doesn't give accurate stats for /root, it includes /root, /bin etc... doesnt it?

Perhaps its my fault for being unclear....I meant you wont see stats for /root/ alone....so infact it may not be /root thats full

Yes, it tells you the amount of free space on /, which on Andy's system includes everything except /tmp, /home, /boot, /usr, /var.

Doing a du, just tells you how much space /root is using, but this doesn't help if you don't know how much space you have. =)

Cheers,

Alex
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Doing a du, just tells you how much space /root is using, but this doesn't help if you don't know how much space you have. =)
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I thought it may show something obvious like a large file.

Your brain works in the opposite direction to mine then :-) And you're making life more difficult for yourself using your method.

- wil

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Your brain works in the opposite direction to mine then :-)
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Yep, the right direction ;)

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And you're making life more difficult for yourself using your method.
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My life is fine...my server has neverending space ;) (until I mirror cpan)

Did you manage to complete your mirror of CPAN?

- wil

Yeah, then I removed it yesterday when I hit 100% capacity in /usr/local lol

LOL. I've got a spare 10gig flying around here if you're interested :-)

- wil

Nah its ok, Ive got 40 GIGs but most of it is in /home