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Operating Systems Linux No space left on device when using rm Post 302840061 by GTCG on Sunday 4th of August 2013 06:22:46 AM
Old 08-04-2013
No space left on device when using rm
Hello people

I have a small fileserver running busybox (very small linux distro with most essential stuff on it) and I am trying to remove some unused directories on it.

When I try this:
Code:
rm -R test/

I get:
Code:
rm: cannot remove 'test': No space left on device

df shows:
Code:
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mtdblock2           32768     15868     16900  48% /
none                    128004        12    127992   0% /tmp
/tmp/.cemnt/sdb1     369386932  54555641 290412091  16% /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdb1
/tmp/.cemnt/sda5     1915824128 1186595444 631553488  65% /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda5
/dev/mtdblock3           93184     17384     75800  19% /opt

The drive I am trying to remove this folder from is /mnt_sdb1. There is still plenty of space left there, so I am at a loss here what the cause could be. I can still copy files to the drive as well, so I believe it cannot be an inode-problem as well.

When trying to remove the folder by referring to its inode number:

Code:
-bash-3.2# find . -inum 7888609 -exec rm -r -i {} \;
rm: descend into directory './test'? y
rm: remove directory './test'? y
rm: cannot remove './test': No space left on device

So what could be the cause and how can I remove obsolete folder or files from the filesystem?

Thanks in advance!
 

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swaplabel

SWAPLABEL(8)						       System Administration						      SWAPLABEL(8)

NAME

       swaplabel - print or change the label or UUID of a swap area

SYNOPSIS

       swaplabel [-L label] [-U UUID] device

DESCRIPTION

       swaplabel will display or change the label or UUID of a swap partition located on device (or regular file).

       If the optional arguments -L and -U are not given, swaplabel will simply display the current swap-area label and UUID of device.

       If  an  optional argument is present, then swaplabel will change the appropriate value on device.  These values can also be set during swap
       creation using mkswap(8).  The swaplabel utility allows to change the label or UUID on an actively used swap device.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Display help text and exit.

       -L, --label label
	      Specify a new label for the device.  Swap partition labels can be at most 16 characters long.  If label is longer  than  16  charac-
	      ters, swaplabel will truncate it and print a warning message.

       -U, --uuid UUID
	      Specify a new UUID for the device.  The  UUID must be in the standard 8-4-4-4-12 character format, such as is output by uuidgen(1).

AUTHOR

       swaplabel was written by Jason Borden <jborden@bluehost.com> and Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.

AVAILABILITY

       The swaplabel command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

SEE ALSO

       mkswap(8), swapon(8), uuidgen(1)

util-linux							    April 2010							      SWAPLABEL(8)
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