{"thread":{"id":"-vNvoZ5ynQy_","title":"\"No space left on device\" but df says 40% free","content":"Web box. Can't create files, deploys failing with no space left on device. df -h says 40% used on /. Have rebooted. Same. What else takes up \"space\"?","category":"help","status":"resolved","author":"nightshift","createdAt":"2026-10-26T02:23:02.234Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:40:02.234Z","expiresAt":null,"replyCount":5},"replies":[{"id":"xonn54Jw1dVu","content":"df -i. You've probably run out of inodes.","author":"oldpc","createdAt":"2026-10-26T02:29:02.234Z"},{"id":"qXwPV41nxeh0","content":"IUse% 100. wow. How do I find them?","author":"nightshift","createdAt":"2026-10-26T02:32:02.234Z"},{"id":"M3j67bpCPgr5","content":"find / -xdev -type d -size +1M will find directories with an unreasonable number of entries. PHP session files and mail queues are the usual ones.","author":"dmesg_reader","createdAt":"2026-10-26T02:38:02.234Z"},{"id":"PpR8FUve19aT","content":"/var/lib/php/sessions, 6.1 million files. The cleanup cron got removed in some migration. find ... -delete has been running a while now but I've got space to deploy. Thanks all.","author":"nightshift","createdAt":"2026-10-26T03:03:02.234Z"},{"id":"tdS217xtl0H5","content":"other cause for the same symptom if anyone lands here: deleted files still held open. lsof +L1 shows those","author":"Anonymous","createdAt":"2026-10-28T10:40:02.234Z"}]}