[Dovecot] doveot reporting "No space left on device" - yet df show plenty of space / inodes.

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Tom Brownlie wrote:

> dovecot: Aug 05 09:47:38 Error: IMAP(rebecca): file_dotlock_open(/ 
> data/mail/rebecca/dovecot-uidlist) failed: No space left on device

Some syscall is failing here with ENOSPC. Unfortunately the log  
doesn't show which syscall it is.. You could check this with strace.  
For example change:

   mail_executable = /usr/bin/strace -o /tmp/dovecot.log /usr/local/ 
libexec/dovecot/imap

Then grep for ENOSPC from the /tmp/dovecot.log and show what it says?

> I manually created a file in /data/mail/rebecca - which worked fine,  
> and didn't cause any problems.

Can you create hard links (ln file file2)?

> I have manually stopped postfix and dovecot, and then re-started  
> them.. But to no avail.

Did you try rebooting the entire machine? Maybe the kernel is still  
confused.

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