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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, January 14, 2007 7:10:18 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
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!!!No Space left on device.
The device is full. Note that by default, on ext3 partitions, normal users cannot use up 100% of the disk space. 5% is reserved for root, so root has space to bzip2 files, move things around etc. This 5% margin also lowers the amount of fragmentation that occurs on a filesystem. This may mean that even though your partition may not be totally full yet, programs will complaing about being out of space.
-Depending on your tools, they may say that "100%" of the disk is full at this 5% margin,
(and therefore you can have up to 105% of the disk being used), or they may only say 95%.
+Depending on your tools, they may say that "100%" of the disk is full at this 5% margin (and therefore you can have up to 105% of the disk being used), or they may only say 95%.
-These settings can be changed with tune2fs(8).
+These settings can be changed with [
tune2fs(8)].
+
+[Linux] offers a convenience for testing how code reacts to a full device in the form of <tt>/dev/full</tt>, a device which returns [ENOSPC] for any attempt to write to it
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