SuSE Enterprise Linux 10 reports "write error: disk full?" even though there are 13TB available

Question

So, I recently added some disk to a system and everything seemed to be peachy, the extending of the LVM went fine and so did the filesystem resize. However, when a user logs on to the system and tries editing or creating a file in his/hers home directory the message "write error: disk full?" appears out of nowhere.

Checking a df -h reports this:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             133G  109G   17G  87% /
udev                  3.0G  200K  3.0G   1% /dev
/dev/sda1             297M   19M  263M   7% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg00-lvhome 15T  2.4T   13T  16% /home

Has anyone ever encountered this before?

Sorry if the information provided is insufficient, if something is lacking just let me know so that I can provide it.

Is the file system in good shape? Does `dmesg` return I/O errors or similar? Can you create new files to /home as root? More info needed! :) — Janne Pikkarainen, Mar 08 '12 at 09:27
Hello Janne, thanks for your input. Dmesg does not report any IO errors. Yes, it is possible to create files as the root user. — David Lind, Mar 08 '12 at 09:31
Are the quotas in use? SELinux? File/directory permissions ok? — Janne Pikkarainen, Mar 08 '12 at 09:39
Nope, no quotas in use and no SELinux. The file/dir permissions looks just fine .. drwxr-xr-x on the users home directories. — David Lind, Mar 08 '12 at 09:45
Just an idea, you said you extended the lvm: What's the blocksize of the ext3 filesystem? For 16TB, you need a 4kb blocksize (which should be the norm). — AndreasM, Mar 09 '12 at 07:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 09 '12 at 04:55

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Maybe your /home partition has run out of inodes. You can check your inode usage with df -i.

edited Mar 09 '12 at 04:55

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answered Mar 08 '12 at 09:20

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No there seems to be inodes left, df -i reports that the inode usage for /home is at 1% – David Lind Mar 08 '12 at 09:22

SuSE Enterprise Linux 10 reports "write error: disk full?" even though there are 13TB available

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