#1 2019-03-28 19:50:04

schwim

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From: Coastal VA, Murica

Registered: 2015-09-29

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No space left on device

Hi there guys,

To make it as brief as possible,  /home has a lot of space but when I tried to cp -R directory newdirectory I got a ton of "no space left on device" errors.

I am trying to duplicate the directory named main into the same parent directory as the directory named dev, so I'm using the command:

cp -R main dev

When running this, I received a shower of this:

cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/a8lfsi': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/mb18': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/wraith': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/ford34': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/LSCS-Pack-bkup': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/rrphantom': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/audir8lms2': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/brokenet': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/czl1': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/m1procar': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/lumma750': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/resources/[addoncars]/m5f90': No space left on device
cp: error writing 'dev/server-data/server.cfg': No space left on device
cp: error writing 'dev/server-data/permissions.cfg': No space left on device
cp: error writing 'dev/server-data/cars.cfg': No space left on device
cp: error writing 'dev/server-data/boats.cfg': No space left on device
cp: error writing 'dev/server-data/logo.png': No space left on device
cp: error writing 'dev/server-data/positions.txt': No space left on device
cp: error writing 'dev/server-data/run.log': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/server-data/cache': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/to be installed_': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'dev/held_for_change': No space left on device

Here's some important stuff:

web1@server:~/fivem$ pwd
/var/www/clients/client1/web1/home/schwimserver2/fivem
web1@server:~/fivem$ 

web1@server:~/fivem$ du -hs main
7.0G    main

web1@server:~/fivem$ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev            32911584        0  32911584   0% /dev
tmpfs            6589804    75700   6514104   2% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p3  20026236 17026100   1959804  90% /
tmpfs           32949004        4  32949000   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           32949004        0  32949004   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/nvme0n1p2    498532    32640    435633   7% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1    522228      136    522092   1% /boot/efi
/dev/nvme0n1p4 901907680    73652 855996716   1% /home
web1@server:~/fivem$

Can someone tell me what I can do to fix this issue?

Last edited by schwim (2019-03-28 20:27:34)

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From: Edrychwch o'ch cwmpas

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 767

Re: No space left on device

Well, taking into account this:

web1@server:~/fivem$ pwd
/var/www/clients/client1/web1/home/schwimserver2/fivem
web1@server:~/fivem$ 

and that:

web1@server:~/fivem$ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev            32911584        0  32911584   0% /dev
tmpfs            6589804    75700   6514104   2% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p3  20026236 17026100   1959804  90% /
tmpfs           32949004        4  32949000   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           32949004        0  32949004   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/nvme0n1p2    498532    32640    435633   7% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1    522228      136    522092   1% /boot/efi
/dev/nvme0n1p4 901907680    73652 855996716   1% /home
web1@server:~/fivem$

I strongly suspect that you are trying to copy stuff not on '/home' partition which apparently has plenty of space, but on '/' partition, because, '/var' and similar are not in '/home', but in '/'. And '/' partition (mounted on '/dev/nvme0n1p3') has only approx 2GB left. This is probably because you have symbolic links somewhere inside your '/home/fivem' path, pointing somewhere to '/var/www...' which is located on '/dev/nvme0n1p3' partition with small amount of free space. Or perhaps, your dir structure with symbolic links is even more complicated ..

You can test this by issuing following 'cp' command:

cp -R main /home/fivem/dev

Or this one, which is much more precise:

$ cp -R /var/www/clients/client1/web1/home/schwimserver2/fivem/main /home/fivem/dev

NOTE: be careful, above is based on my (educated) guess about your directory and partition(s) layout. I might be wrong. Please, check the commands you are issuing.

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