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--- computer_science:linux:linux_troubleshooting:linux_no_space_left_on_device [2020/06/30 14:37] – carlossousa
+++ computer_science:linux:linux_troubleshooting:linux_no_space_left_on_device [2023/12/01 12:07] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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+====== Linux - No Space left on device ======
 [TODO] A detailed troubleshooting should be made instead of bulletpoints.
-  - Check if the device itself has free space
+|Check if the device itself has free space|<code bash>
-      * df-h
+df-h
-  - If you need to clear logs a simple redirect would be enough
-      * > file.log
+</code>     |
-  - If the issue still remains probably your inodes are full. You can check it with:
+|If you need to clear logs a simple redirect would be enough|<code bash>> file.log
-      * df -i
+</code>|
-  - If that is the issue you can check where the issues lies with:
+|If the issue still remains probably your inodes are full. You can check it with:|<code bash>
-      * for i in /*; do echo $i; find $i |wc -l; done
+df -i
-      - You can go deeper then with:
-        * for i in /var/*; do echo $i; find $i |wc -l; done  -
+</code>     |
+|If that is the issue you can check where the issues lies with:|<code bash>
+for i in /*; do echo $i; find $i |wc -l; done
+</code>     |
+|You can go deeper then with:|<code bash>
+for i in /var/*; do echo $i; find $i |wc -l; done
+</code>     |
+|In my case the issue was by /var/spool/postfix/maildrop. A "rm -fv" doesn't work, since there are too many files in that directory. Therefore, you can make sure a loop will delete the files you actually want with:|<code bash>
+for f in *; do echo rm "$f"; done
+</code>     |
+|and if you are happy with the result, commit to it:|<code bash>
+for f in *; do rm "$f"; 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:
+</code>     |
-  *
+\\