I have seen some questions and I know that Ubuntu reserves 5% of filesystem to root. Believe me this is not the case.
I was moving some files from my home folder to another partition and I had to cancel the copying process due to some reason (the copy didn't stop abruptly, I cancelled it). Now when I try to move the remaining files I get error Error opening file '/media/sda5/Android/carbon/external/icu4c/i18n/ucol_bld.h': No space left on device. The destination partition has 85Gb free and my source (Ubuntu home) partition has 12Gb free (total of 48Gb, 5% of 48 is not 12).
Is there any other reason why I might get this error? How do i fix it?
Note: The path from which I was moving had a lot of directories and sub-directories. (It was android source actually. So you can imagine.) I don't know if that information might be useful.
Edit:
df -h | grep -v '^none' gives
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 48G 34G 12G 75% /
udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 793M 1.4M 792M 1% /run
/dev/sda7 50G 50G 441M 100% /host
/dev/sda9 50G 34G 17G 68% /media/sda9
/dev/sda6 300G 281G 20G 94% /media/sda6
/dev/sda5 300G 221G 80G 74% /media/sda5
df -h -i | grep -v '^none' gives
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 3.0M 874K 2.2M 29% /
udev 989K 578 989K 1% /dev
tmpfs 992K 655 991K 1% /run
/dev/sda7 505K 66 505K 1% /host
/dev/sda9 17M 38K 17M 1% /media/sda9
/dev/sda6 20M 110K 20M 1% /media/sda6
/dev/sda5 81M 1.1M 80M 2% /media/sda5
Please note that the partitions in question are /dev/loop0 and /dev/sda5
Edit 2:
I just noticed that I am even unable to create new documents in my partition /dev/sda5 (all the more reason to panic)
Edit 3: I fired sudo strace mv. Here is the output. I don't really understand it a lot.
