Re: why am I getting "No space left on device" here?

Tomasz Chmielewski
2014-01-15T20:22:15Z

> > # dd if=/dev/urandom of=bigfile
> > dd: writing to `bigfile': No space left on device
> > 186+0 records in
> > 185+0 records out
> > 94720 bytes (95 kB) copied, 0.0144045 s, 6.6 MB/s
> >
> >
> > I don't understand why - can anyone explain?
>
> What kernel version? Can you:
>
> umount
> dmesg -n7
> mount
>
> And then try to reproduce the behavior and note any kernel messages in
> dmesg?

It was running 3.13.0-rc6 at the time and there were no extra
warnings etc. in dmesg.

I've removed a ~12 GB file (after which I was able to add new data) and
rebooted since then, so unfortunately I won't be able to reproduce it
for now.

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Tomasz Chmielewski