Any Linux dudes out there.

[dbdg]

I have dedicated hosting in the US for my website but suddenly I am unable to create anymore directories. Plenty of space 80GB. I can upload files to my hearts content but as soon as I try to create a new directory I get unable to create a folder, no space left on device.

My website currently only have 800 folders.

I have emailed my hosts and hope they will sort it out but just wondered if anyone here has any ideas as to why this is happening, surely if there is a limit to the number of directories it can't be that low.

Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

[Topha]

Just try the Alternative Lifestyle Forum, here is a link

[WyWyWyWy]

Could be a quota thing.

[dbdg]

Got a strange reply from my hosts, fixed now but I am still interested in what the prob was, their reply isn't that obvious to me.

"Your site has outgrown the partition we had the webserver configured to use. I have the site down temporarily while I reorganise the drive layout to give the site closer to 80GB of space as opposed to the 6GB it currently has."

[thop]

Sounds like you simply run out of space Got shell access? df -h next time.

[Sasq]

Yup, just a host err fault, similar reason to why the DB died here a few months back, just not enough room on the partition

Dan

[dbdg]

Whats strange is my site is only 800MB, at least it shouldn't happen again.

[Gurm]

It has nothing to do with how big your site was.

They give you a quote of 80GB, but because your site has traditionally been very small, it was living on a crowded disk.

That disk ran out of space, and your site grew. They had to move you to a different disk that had more free space.

Happens all the time.

- Gurm