"No space left on device" Which device?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jun 1 09:21:17 IST 2005


cd /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
df -k .
df -i .

On 1 Jun 2005, at 09:10, Anthony Peacock wrote:

> Hi,
>
> MailScanner-4.41.3
>
> I have got the following error twice in my logs.
>
> May 31 21:30:11 inetsrv-1.chime.ucl.ac.uk MailScanner[13128]: Cannot
> parse /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/13128/j4VKTx9r023647.header and
> , MIME::Parser: can't flush: No space left on device at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/MIME/Parser.pm line 789,
> <GEN4603> line 24.
>
> I understand that it is telling me that the device it is trying to
> flush to is too full.  What I can't work out is which device as the
> partition that is /var has at least 3Gb free space at the moment.
>
> Is this trying to flush to a temp file on /tmp?  As I could
> understand that getting too full.
>
>
> -- 
> Anthony Peacock
> CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
> WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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