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Out of space — which resource?

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Summary

Check the filesystem of the path being written to and both its resources: df -h for blocks, df -i for inodes.
A file's size, its blocks and its inode are separate measures; find consumers with du and du --inodes.
Remove only what is permitted and confirm the write as the user whose write failed.
At the start of the lesson touch could not create a file on an almost empty volume: hundreds of empty cache files had taken every inode while needing almost no blocks.

Ubuntu 24.04