By datamonkey
Hi, I have a droplet that has been collecting some data for me, I now want to run a python script, which fails as follows:
out = open('data.tsv', 'w')
IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/data.tsv'
The problem is, I think there should be plenty of space. Running df -h produces the following:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 235M 4.0K 235M 1% /dev
tmpfs 50M 344K 49M 1% /run
/dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT 20G 6.8G 12G 37% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 246M 0 246M 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
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Actually, I believe this may be an issue of you telling it to delete files, but the system hasn’t actually done so, but the pointers are gone.
Run this:
lsof|grep delete
If you see a lot of things return, the simplest solution would be to reboot. It will clear up those files when it restarts.
I’m not great when it comes to coding but here’s a couple of things to check until a programmer comes along.
Sounds like a permissions issue. 1 ) Does the file you are trying to write to exist? 2) Are you going to run the script manually each time?
Sounds like if the file exists and you are manually running the script, you don’t have the correct privileges to write to the file.
Occasionally, a file will be deleted, but a process is still using it. Linux won’t release the storage associated with the file while the process is still running. You just need to find the process and restart it.
Try to locate the process.
sudo lsof / | grep deleted
The problematic process should be listed, then just restart it.
sudo systemctl restart service_name
If this doesn’t help, then I’ll recommend trying to reboot the droplet and see what happens.
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