Thread: N900 partition-table problem: table has vanished, 'No space left on (not-full) device'
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tfj is offline tfj
2016-03-15 , 16:06
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It turns out I downloaded too much source-code into a directory
on </home/user>. Removing about a dozen large files fixed things.
So this was an out-of-memory, rather than out-of-inodes, problem?

I didn't have the <df -i> flag, however, I do have gdf (that's
'gnu-df'), and here's some selected (pre-fix) output:

"gdf -i":
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Code:
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2        131072   68523   62549   53% /home
/opt/pymaemo/...      131072   68523   62549   53% /usr/...
/dev/mmcblk0p1             0       0       0    -  /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1             0       0       0    -  /media/mmc1
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Here's the selected <df> listing, post-fix:

"df":
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Code:
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2         2064208   1860848     98504  95% /home
/home/opt              2064208   1860848     98504  95% /opt
(various /opt/pymaemo lines ...)  
                       2064208   1860848     98504  95% /usr/...
/dev/mmcblk0p1        28312128  27095872   1216256  96% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1        15549952  15335680    214272  99% /media/mmc1
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Note, the odd output of fdisk actually was a clue - post-fix, it's
back to normal:

"fdisk -l":
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Code:
Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1936 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk1p1            8192    31116287    15554048    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 32.0 GB, 32015122432 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 977024 cylinders, total 62529536 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk0p1              64    56631359    28315648    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2        56631360    60825663     2097152   83  Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p3        60825664    62398527      786432   82  Linux swap / Solaris
================================================== ===================

The first 500 bytes of </dev/mmcblk0p2> are blank, as before.