Question
"No space left on device" on mounted volume
- Posted on December 15, 2022
- DigitalOcean Volumes
Asked by zavalit
Hi, i try to move my data to newely attached volume of 30 GB.
and fails with a following message:
cp: cannot create regular file '/mnt/volume_fra1_01/data/2_alkis/cache/15/17242/10813.pbf': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory '/mnt/volume_fra1_01/data/tmp': No space left on device
...
when i check an available space there is still 20GB free on a volume
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 97M 1020K 96M 2% /run
/dev/vda1 25G 21G 3.2G 87% /
tmpfs 485M 0 485M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/vda15 105M 5.3M 100M 5% /boot/efi
tmpfs 97M 4.0K 97M 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda 30G 11G 19G 36% /mnt/volume_fra1_01
is it a bug or a feature?
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Hi there,
It is possible that you’ve filled up your inodes rather than the disk space itself. You can check if this is the case with the following command:
This usually happens when there are a lot of small files and it is the number of files that causes the problem rather than the size.
If this is the case, use the following command to find the directory that contains most of those files:
Let me know how it goes!
Best,
Bobby Source
In my case, I hadn’t expanded the size of my volume as explained in this article: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/volumes/how-to/increase-size/#expand-the-filesystem
After following the steps I was able to unlock all of the space in my mounted volume.
Hi @Bobby tnx for a feedback, but i already removed this volume and attached a new one with +5G above the previous one. and it just worked.