tail: cannot watch `/var/log/messages': No space left on device

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Issue

  • When performing 'tail -f filename', error shows as follows
# tail -f /var/log/messages
tail: cannot watch `/var/log/messages': No space left on device

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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