No space left on device [closed]

Answer 1

Such difference between the output of du -sh and df -h may happen if some large file has been deleted, but is still opened by some process. Check with the command lsof | grep deleted to see which processes have opened descriptors to deleted files. You can restart the process and the space will be freed.

Answer 2

You can execute the following commands

lsof / |grep deleted

kill the process id's, which free up the disk space.

Answer 3

To list processes holding deleted files a linux system which has no lsof, here's my trick:

    pushd /proc ; for i in [1-9]* ; do ls -l $i/fd | grep "(deleted)" && (echo -n "used by: " ; ps -p $i | grep -v PID ; echo ) ; done ; popd

Answer 4

Maybe you are out of inodes. Try df -i

                     2591792  136322 2455470    6% /home
/dev/sdb1            1887488 1887488       0  100% /data

Disk used 6% but inode table full.