No space left on device?

[inetd]

I have received a mail from logwatch like this:

--------------------- Cron Begin ------------------------

**Unmatched Entries**
DEATH (can't open or create /var/run/crond.pid: No space left on device)

---------------------- Cron End -------------------------



------------------ Disk Space --------------------

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 981M 197M 734M 22% /
/dev/hda1 99M 24M 70M 26% /boot
/dev/hda6 981M 121M 811M 13% /home
none 188M 0 188M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9 449M 9.7M 416M 3% /tmp
/dev/hda5 2.9G 1.9G 914M 68% /usr
/dev/hda8 981M 277M 655M 30% /usr/local
/dev/hda7 981M 312M 620M 34% /var
/dev/hdc1 13G 438M 12G 4% /mnt/data


Is it said that it has "No space left on device" on /var?
However the df say that /var has 620M available.

Pls help.
Thanks.

 

[KenCunningham]

Perhaps the job reaches the limit and then backs out, deleting whatever it's produced in the meantime and thus releasing diskspace back, rather like a failed compression.

 

[Deleted]

Are you using an RAID array.

My experience with similiar issues like this was due to a filing drive within the RAID array.

 

[rzs0502]

Also try a `df -i` to check inodes in /var

 

[Draxenato]

Is /var/run softlinked to another filesystem maybe ?
Have you tried creating the file manually ?

touch /var/run/crond.pid