XFS filesystem gives "No space left on device" errors
Issue
- New space was added to an XFS file system and
dfshows available space. - Issuing a
mkdircommand gives: "mkdir: cannot create directory '###': No space left on device" - XFS file system generates "No space left on device" errors however there is plenty of space and inodes left.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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