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    Systemctl error no space left on device

    Hello,

    I've recently started to see this error message when I try to use sytemctl to start a service (any service).
    [root@localhost ~]# systemctl start httpd.service
    Error: No space left on device
    ^C
    [root@localhost ~]# systemctl start postgresql.service
    Error: No space left on device
    Job failed. See system journal and 'systemctl status' for details.
    [root@localhost ~]# systemctl status postgresql.service
    postgresql.service - PostgreSQL database server
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service; disabled)
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:21:23 -0400; 32s ago
    Process: 31448 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/postgresql-check-db-dir ${PGDATA} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    CGroup: name=systemd:/system/postgresql.service
    [root@localhost ~]# df -h
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    rootfs 146G 28G 117G 20% /
    devtmpfs 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /dev
    tmpfs 2.9G 2.9M 2.9G 1% /dev/shm
    tmpfs 2.9G 2.3M 2.9G 1% /run
    /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root 146G 28G 117G 20% /
    tmpfs 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
    tmpfs 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /media
    /dev/sda1 485M 113M 347M 25% /boot
    /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home 306G 141G 149G 49% /home
    I've read people mention SELinux, I've tried the above both with SELinux disabled & permissive. I have no issue with free space, so I'm not sure what the true problem is here :| so any help would be appreciated.

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    Re: Systemctl error no space left on device

    You may be running out of inodes instead of actual disk space.

    Try running df -i and see what your inode usage is.

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    Re: Systemctl error no space left on device

    Did you enable quotas?

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    Re: Systemctl error no space left on device

    Quote Originally Posted by DBelton
    You may be running out of inodes instead of actual disk space.

    Try running df -i and see what your inode usage is.
    [root@localhost ~]# df -i
    Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
    rootfs 9682944 483049 9199895 5% /
    devtmpfs 743466 490 742976 1% /dev
    tmpfs 746381 29 746352 1% /dev/shm
    tmpfs 746381 595 745786 1% /run
    /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root 9682944 483049 9199895 5% /
    tmpfs 746381 12 746369 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
    tmpfs 746381 1 746380 1% /media
    /dev/sda1 128016 320 127696 1% /boot
    /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home 20316160 425427 19890733 3% /home
    Quote Originally Posted by george_toolan
    Did you enable quotas?
    I've done nothing with quotas.

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    Re: Systemctl error no space left on device

    my next thought is a corrupted filesystem.

    reboot, and when the grub menu comes up, hit "e" to edit your kernel line. On the end of the line that starts with linux /vmlinux- just add the parameter fsck.mode=force then boot your machine. It should force a filesystem check when it boots, before remounting your root filesystem read/write.

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    Re: Systemctl error no space left on device

    Adding the fsck check to the kernel line did run the check, but didn't fix the problem :[
    However, I have had this exact same issue for quite some time.. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=277866 >.> I've just always been to Ctrl+D to continue out of it and the system has seemed to work fine. In finding that thread, though, I *believe* I was able to fix that issue and will see if the problem has been resolved (there were TONS of errors :-X )

    Update: the problem persists. :[
    Last edited by willc0de4food; 23rd August 2012 at 02:19 AM.

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    Re: Systemctl error no space left on device

    This is probably due to inotify running out of resources to watch directories.

    I can't post the solution to the forum because the variable name contains a banned word, but look at the Crashplan support page.
    Last edited by kruton; 9th November 2012 at 09:06 PM.

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