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Linux: df: cannot read table of mounted file systems

“df -l” returned an error: “df: cannot read table of mounted file systems”. I looked at my “/etc/mtab” file – empty! I did a “fdisk -l” and saw my partitions there, then proceeded to create a new mtab from my /proc/mount:

grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab

Error message: no space left on the device!

Ran out of room… my SQL dumps are taking a lot of space Freed up some space and executed the command again – df is now returning what it’s supposed to return.

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