SUMMARY: Filesystem full (NOT /!)

Markus 'FvD' Weber (fvd@ira.uka.de)
Sat, 06 Dec 1997 16:38:48 +0100 (MET)

Original posting:

> We have the following problem here:
> 500MB filesystem, 400MB used, 44% inodes free, but no one (even root) can't
> create any addition files. FS is used with about 7000 directories an some
> n*1000++ tiny files.

Thanks to:

Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>
Stefan Voss <s.voss@terradata.de>
peter.allan@aeat.co.uk (Peter M Allan)
baumann@proton.llumc.edu
Jeff Woolsey <woolsey@jlw.com>
Tom Erickson <Thomas.M.Erickson.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
"Karl E. Vogel" <vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil>
bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bismark Espinoza)
Richard Skelton <rich@brake.demon.co.uk>

for their help (and all I missed here). No, it wasn't an open file
descriptor. I ran out of free blocks (fsck -> 127688 files, 651034
used, 118724 free (118724 frags, 0 blocks, 15.4% fragmentatation ).

Excerpt from the winners:

Jeff: Fragmentation. fsck will report it. dump/newfs/restore should
Jeff: fix it.

Richard: Check the disk with fsck and you may find that you are out of
Richard: free blocks. You will need to backup the partition and then
Richard: newfs the disk then restore.

However, an ufsdump/newfs/restore didn't help that much, it showed up again
after some files. - SIGH. Guess I'm going to convince the user to use other
ways of storing his data ...

Thanks again - Markus

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