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[TODO] A detailed troubleshooting should be made instead of bulletpoints.

1. Check if the device itself has free space
   • df-h
2. If you need to clear logs a simple redirect would be enough
   • > file.log
3. If the issue still remains probably your inodes are full. You can check it with:
   • df -i
4. If that is the issue you can check where the issues lies with:
   • for i in /*; do echo $i; find $i |wc -l; done
   1. You can go deeper then with:
      • for i in /var/*; do echo $i; find $i |wc -l; done -

In my case the issue was by /var/spool/postfix/maildrop. A “rm -fv” doesn't work, since there are too many files in that directory. Therefore, you can make sure a loop will delete the files you actually want with: