No space left on device- Ubuntu Issues

Question

I am getting this error " OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device " when I am writing files in a directory. I am downloading images programmatically from different sources and creating directories according to day wise. Its working well on windows though.

While checking inodes I got this

I tried different solution like deleting the deleting the junk file and tmp folder but still no success.

What could be the issue?

Answer 1

inodes don't directly correlate with disk usage. Better use df -h to actually see, if your drive is full.

But as you get the error: Yep, it's full. Up to the brim.

You probably have some data some where that uses all that precious storage. Check your home directory with du -hs * | sort -hdu -hs * | sort -h . This can take a moment, but it will show you the size of all files and directories in the current workdir (and sort it too).

Also directories to check would be /opt , /var and /tmp . Don't randomly delete stuff in /var though, if you don't know what you are doing.

I've listed /tmp here too, because you don't have listed it as a mount of the type tmpfs . You should fix that probably.