nodemon - Internal watch failed: ENOSPC: no space left on device, watch '/home/user/Documents/github/sendMail-lib/3808.txt

Question

I am getting an error while running my server file using nodemon. When I type the command nodemon, I get the following output.

[~/D/g/sendMail-lib|3.6.5]
‹master*› »»»» nodemon                                                0|15:35:32
[nodemon] 1.17.5
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: *.*
[nodemon] starting `node server.js`
[nodemon] Internal watch failed: ENOSPC: no space left on device, watch '/home/abdus/Documents/github/sendMail-lib/3808.txt'
[~/D/g/sendMail-lib|3.6.5]
‹master*› »»»»

Additionally, it creates almost 4000 blank text files(1.txt, 2.txt and so on).

I tried this commands but the problem still persists.

I am on Arch Linux with Node version 10.5.0, NPM version 6.1.0 and Nodemon version 1.17.5.

Just ask me if you need any more information.

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 18-04, Node.js v10.6.0, nodemon 1.17.5 — awwright, Jul 06 '18 at 03:15

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '18 at 16:07

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I had the same problem. Run nodemon as sudo.

$ sudo nodemon

Or

# nodemon

Most issues I run into with Arch are solved by just running as root. ;)

answered Jun 27 '18 at 16:07

Jeremy Bobbin

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I'd strongly advise against running things as root, though. – awwright Jul 06 '18 at 03:14
This is useful. However as @awwright commented it is not recommended to run this as _root_. I'd upvote this if it includes the alternative to just give the right permissions to the folders|files as appropriate. – lealceldeiro Aug 29 '18 at 15:30

Yuriy Rypka · Answer 2 · 2019-10-05T08:18:40.463

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echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

Taken from here.

edited Oct 05 '19 at 08:18

answered Jul 10 '19 at 16:47

Yuriy Rypka

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Thank you! This was the solution for me (im using Fedora 30) – Marco Oct 01 '19 at 21:07

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 09 '18 at 11:04

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This is effectively a rights problem, but you don't need to use sudo, just give the user that run nodemon the rights to write to the build directory

an exemple with permissive rights (we use nodemon, so I assume we are in dev)

sudo chmod a+rwX my-application-dir

answered Jul 09 '18 at 11:04

DevTheJo

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I will check this method if I face this issue again. Thank you @Jo Takion – Abdus Jul 15 '18 at 02:08

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 22 '18 at 23:20

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I installed nodemon locally so, I created an "npm start" script and run it as root like so: sudo npm start

answered Sep 22 '18 at 23:20

Nenoj

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 01 '18 at 19:59

I got this error when trying to run npm start with a start script that looked like this:

"start": "nodemon server.js"

It seems that I had a global installation of nodemon, but not a local version in my project's node_modules. Once I ran npm install nodemon, it installed it locally and worked without requiring root permissions.

nodemon: v1.18.5

OS: ubuntu 18.04

nodemon - Internal watch failed: ENOSPC: no space left on device, watch '/home/user/Documents/github/sendMail-lib/3808.txt

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