filesystem full - freebsd 5.3
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Mon Dec 19 05:17:30 PST 2005
Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
>> > > Perhaps more likely, he was trying to allocate full-size blocks, and
>> > > the only things available were fragments. The output from df
>> doesn't
>> > > distinguish between the two types of available space. You can use
>> > > dumpfs(8) to do that.
>> >
>> > This version seems more likely for me.
>>
>> In the situation give, I think it is rather unlikely.
>
>
> We have to cope with the same problem here. It's a 662GB filesystem
> used for Cyrus imapd mail folders. 55GB free space, plenty of free
> inodes, and yet we get "filesystem full" messages. If we remove some
> mail folders (postmaster double bounce stuff, thousands of mails per
> dir), the kernel stops complaining about a full filesystem (until it
> runs out of $factor_x again).
>
> We are now moving to a new machine, where we will split up the large
> filesystem to smaller ones.
This is interesting - can you touch a new file? Also, can you post
(http please) your dumpfs output also? I realize it might be large.
The most interesting pieces to me are the superblock and cylindar
summary info, plus maybe the first 100 cylindar group info.
Eric
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