Re: Issue with "no space left on device"

[Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 02:54:48PM +0000, Sander van Schie / True wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a 35 GB XFS partition with both plenty of free space and inodes, but I'm still getting the error "No space left on device" when trying to create new files.
> 
> Mount options:
> 
> # mount | grep vdc1
> /dev/vdc1 on /mnt type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota)
> 
> Used disk space:
> 
> # df /dev/vdc1
> Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/vdc1       36681200 16066576  20614624  44% /mnt
> 
> Used inodes:
> 
> # df -i /dev/vdc1
> Filesystem     Inodes  IUsed  IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/vdc1      917440 199616 717824   22% /mnt
> 
> xfs info:
> 
> # xfs_info /dev/vdc1
> meta-data=/dev/vdc1              isize=2048   agcount=4, agsize=2293695 blks

With 2k sized inodes, the most likely cause is free space fragmentation.
What does 'xfs_db -c "freesp -s" <dev>' print for this fs?

Brian

>          =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
>          =                       crc=1        finobt=1 spinodes=0
> data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=9174779, imaxpct=5
>          =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
> naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
> log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=4479, version=2
>          =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
> realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
> 
> 
> I've already tried repairing and rebooting, which unfortunately didn't help.
> 
> Any idea what's wrong?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Sander--
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