No space left on device

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I am getting the error  quot No space left on device quot  when i tried to scp some files to a centos machine  tried to check   root       df -h Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use  Mounted on  dev mapper VolGroup00-LogVol01 18G   18G     0 100     And when I do du -sh   - gt  it gives only 5G          df -i   Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse  Mounted on  dev mapper VolGroup00-LogVol01                      4685824  209516 4476308    5     seems like file system is full  How can i find which one is taking these much size

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Maybe you are out of inodes   Try df -i                       2591792  136322 2455470    6   home  dev sdb1            1887488 1887488       0  100   data   Disk used 6  but inode table full

User · Answer

Such difference between the output of du -sh and df -h may happen if some large file has been deleted  but is still opened by some process  Check with the command lsof   grep deleted to see which processes have opened descriptors to deleted files  You can restart the process and the space will be freed

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To list processes holding deleted files a linux system which has no lsof  here s my trick       pushd  proc   for i in  1-9     do ls -l  i fd   grep   deleted    amp  amp   echo -n  used by      ps -p  i   grep -v PID   echo     done   popd

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You can execute the following commands  lsof    grep deleted  kill the process id s  which free up the disk space

[linux] No space left on device

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