Re: No space left on device (was Re: )

[Frank Smith <franks@tradeonemktg-aus.com>]

When I first installed openldap, I got the 'No space left on device'
error even though I had hundreds of megs free on every partition,
lots of free RAM and swap, and was only running ldif2ldbm on a
100-line ldif file.
   I finally realized my config files were 'not right' in several
ways.  After much config editing and a lot 'no space' errors I
eventually ended up with a working database (not set up the way I
needed, but that's a different story).  I don't recall the last
change that made it work, however.
   I suspect that 'no space' may really mean it doesn't know where
(namespace wise) to put the data and so fails in writing it, but I
didn't dig in the source to find the possible causes.

Frank
    
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Nils Henrik Lorentzen wrote:

> clundel@coat.com wrote:
> > 
> > When I use the ldif2ldbm program to build a database with about 1550
> > entries, I get the following message:
> > 
> > idl_insert_key: No space left on device
> > stopping: child exited with status 1
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me why this happens, and what I can do to fix this
> > problem?
> 
> >From the "No space left on device" message it seems the partition
> on which the database is built is full. You can use the 'df'
> command to get a list of how much space is used on each
> partition, to see if this really is what is causing the problem.
> (The 'df' command exists on Linux, dunno if it has the same name or
> exists on other Unixes).
> 
> Nils Henrik
> 

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