All of your services have disk storage space allocated to you. When you fill your disk storage space, you will receive a notification message “Disk quota exceeded” when you try to perform operations, such as storing cache files or sending email. Even if you have free space left on your disk, doesn’t say that you have space to add new files.
Disk quota exceeded
This is the message we’ll get when trying to create a file, even if it’s empty
# touch empty_file touch: cannot touch `empty_file': Disk quota exceeded |
Check free space
Use the command df – report file system disk space usage
# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 10G 8.3G 1.8G 83% / none 1.0G 8.0K 1.0G 1% /dev |
Looks like we have a lot of free space, so why can’t we use it?
Inodes
Index-node (inode) is a data structure on a traditional Unix-style file system such as UFS. An inode stores all the information about a regular file, directory, or other file system object, except its data and name.
To check if you’ve any inodes left on your disk
# df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/simfs 300000 299998 2 100% / none 262144 139 262005 1% /dev |
As you see we only have 2 left, to sort this out you can either add more disk storage or delete files.
How many inodes a folder use
To search for which folder takes up all your inodes use the following script
# find . -type f | cut -d "/" -f 2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n |
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