sudo df -h
udev 982M 0 982M 0% /dev
tmpfs 200M 5.3M 195M 3% /run
/dev/vda2 40G 5.2G 33G 14% /
tmpfs 1000M 0 1000M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 1000M 0 1000M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 200M 0 200M 0% /run/user/0sudo df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
udev 251350 413 250937 1% /dev
tmpfs 255984 937 255047 1% /run
/dev/vda2 2595840 2595840 0 100% /
tmpfs 255984 1 255983 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 255984 6 255978 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 255984 16 255968 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 255984 4 255980 1% /run/user/0I have no clue what's wrong here, why im getting no space left ?
11 Answer
You are not out of space. You still have 33G free space but zero free inodes. You have used all available inodes on your root partition / as shown in the output of df -i.
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/vda2 2595840 2595840 0 100% /With zero free inodes, no new files can be created and some system or applications functionality will be limited.
An inode (index node) is a data structure found in many Unix/Linux file systems. Each inode stores all the information about a file system object (file, device node, socket, pipe, etc.), except data content and file name.
To fix it:
Find which directories use the most inodes by running this command:
sudo du --inodes /Then delete some files that you do not need or move them to a USB drive.
This will free some inodes and make it possible to utilize the available free space.
Notice:
To output only directories with a certain minimum number of inodes, use the command like so:
sudo du --inodes / | grep -P "^\d{4,}"This will only output directories with four digits number of inodes and more so 1000 and more will be printed.
You can change 4to for example 5 to print only directories with 10000 inodes and more and so on.
