id-static: final link failed : No space left on device

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 14 July 2007, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> I plead ignorance to both questions - what other FS's and what file?

What they're getting at, Nigel, is we have no idea the context of the message 
you're getting, because you didn't specify.  I think you're getting this at 
boot, because I have some vague idea that I've seen this same message, right 
at the start of booting Feisty, but I haven't actually booted in some time, 
and perhaps I misremember.

In my case, if I did get this message, it was probably true.  I recently 
discovered that my / partition was, in fact, 100% full, and df was reporting 
erroneous values, something like (artificially adulterated, simulated 
example):

Filesystem            Size  Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             9.2G  9.0G  2.0G  100% /

It was showing I still had "Avail" space, but my "Use" was still at 100%, and 
attempts to create new files failed.  I have no idea why.  In my case, I 
discovered the stupid mistake I had made which had eaten up all my space, and 
chose not to worry further about this entire matter.  Nothing appears to be 
broken, and if it ain't broke....

In any event, this accounting of my own tale, which I had not even planned to 
mention, is only purest wild speculation at what you might be getting at with 
those messages you posted.  Their questions about your other filesystems, and 
what link you were trying to create are all aimed at uncovering the same 
thing.  We're all taking blind potshots here.

Please do enlighten us as to the context in which you receive these errors.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre