August 2006 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Cookout...

by Stephen C. Daukas

Great fun! Many thanks to our hosts, Jamie and especially Karen, for all the great food! Looking forward to the pictures! ;-) Steve

Aug. 11, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Weird fs problem...

by John Stoffel

Tim> I suppose this poses the next question to WLUG. What do people Tim> recommend as tuning parameters and/or fs types for creating Tim> filesystems that have the potential to store massive ammounts of Tim> relatively small files? Just tune the filesystem so that it's got lots and lots of inodes: mke2fs -T news -o dir_index,sparse_super -j /dev/... Tim> Would I have been better suited to have this thing formatted with Tim> ReiserFS? Not in my book. Reiserfs3 was stuffed into the kernel and then pretty much abandonded for the cool/gee-whiz/fast/extsensible reiserfs4 that is now being pushed at the kernel. I don't trust either of them with my data at this point. I like and trust and understand ext3. I'd probably go with JFS (IBMs thing) first, but even then I'm leary... John

Aug. 10, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Weird fs problem...

by Theo Van Dinter

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:11:15PM -0400, Tim Keller wrote: > What do people recommend as tuning parameters and/or fs types for creating > filesystems that have the potential to store massive ammounts of relatively > small files? > > Would I have been better suited to have this thing formatted with ReiserFS? I prefer XFS in general, which in this case has no set inode number limitation. I've been burned numerous times by ReiserFS in the past, whereas I haven't had any major XFS issues that I can recall. fwiw. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Veni, Vidi, Vice" - I came, I saw, I partied.

Aug. 10, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Weird fs problem...

by Tim Keller

I suppose this poses the next question to WLUG. What do people recommend as tuning parameters and/or fs types for creating filesystems that have the potential to store massive ammounts of relatively small files? Would I have been better suited to have this thing formatted with ReiserFS? Thanks, Tim. On 8/10/06, Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Ding! Theo wins. > > df -i reveals that the filesystem is out of inodes. Seriously this is the > first time I've ever had this problem. > > Well... time to do some cleaning! > > Thanks, > Tim. > > On 8/10/06, Theo Van Dinter <felicity(a)kluge.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:48:20AM -0400, Tim Keller wrote: > > a 'df -h' yeilds the following: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda1 233G 115G 107G 52% /mnt/ext-usb > > > > The weird problem that I'm seeing is that I can't write data to it > anymore. > > > > [root@fandango ext-usb]# touch test > > touch: cannot touch `test': No space left on device > > The first thing I'd think of is are you out of inodes? df -i > > -- > Randomly Generated Tagline: > "You don't want me to pick out your brain surgeon. I don't want your brain > surgeon picking out my router :)" - LuftHans(a)asu.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > > > -- > I am leary of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > -- I am leary of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Aug. 10, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Weird fs problem...

by Tim Keller

Ding! Theo wins. df -i reveals that the filesystem is out of inodes. Seriously this is the first time I've ever had this problem. Well... time to do some cleaning! Thanks, Tim. On 8/10/06, Theo Van Dinter <felicity(a)kluge.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:48:20AM -0400, Tim Keller wrote: > > a 'df -h' yeilds the following: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda1 233G 115G 107G 52% /mnt/ext-usb > > > > The weird problem that I'm seeing is that I can't write data to it > anymore. > > > > [root@fandango ext-usb]# touch test > > touch: cannot touch `test': No space left on device > > The first thing I'd think of is are you out of inodes? df -i > > -- > Randomly Generated Tagline: > "You don't want me to pick out your brain surgeon. I don't want your brain > surgeon picking out my router :)" - LuftHans(a)asu.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > -- I am leary of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Aug. 10, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Weird fs problem...

by Theo Van Dinter

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:48:20AM -0400, Tim Keller wrote: > a 'df -h' yeilds the following: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 233G 115G 107G 52% /mnt/ext-usb > > The weird problem that I'm seeing is that I can't write data to it anymore. > > [root@fandango ext-usb]# touch test > touch: cannot touch `test': No space left on device The first thing I'd think of is are you out of inodes? df -i -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "You don't want me to pick out your brain surgeon. I don't want your brain surgeon picking out my router :)" - LuftHans(a)asu.edu

Aug. 10, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Weird fs problem...

by John Stoffel

Tim> I've got a really weird filesystem problem... Tim> I've got a 250GB external USB disk device. It's formatted at ext3. Tim> a 'df -h' yeilds the following: Tim> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on Tim> /dev/sda1 233G 115G 107G 52% /mnt/ext-usb Tim> The weird problem that I'm seeing is that I can't write data to Tim> it anymore. Tim> i.e. Tim> [root@fandango ext-usb]# pwd Tim> /mnt/ext-usb Tim> [root@fandango ext-usb]# touch test Tim> touch: cannot touch `test': No space left on device Tim> [root@fandango ext-usb]# What does 'df -i' yield? It sounds like you're out of inodes on there. Do you have tons and tons of small files on there? John

Aug. 10, 2006

Weird fs problem...

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, I've got a really weird filesystem problem... I've got a 250GB external USB disk device. It's formatted at ext3. a 'df -h' yeilds the following: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 233G 115G 107G 52% /mnt/ext-usb The weird problem that I'm seeing is that I can't write data to it anymore. i.e. [root@fandango ext-usb]# pwd /mnt/ext-usb [root@fandango ext-usb]# touch test touch: cannot touch `test': No space left on device [root@fandango ext-usb]# And yes, before you ask, I've unmounted the volume and I'm currently running a fsck on it. Though it's 250GB so... it'll be a while... Tim. -- I am leary of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Aug. 10, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Website down? Plus "who is Jamie?"

by Chuck Anderson

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:55:36AM -0400, Jamie Guinan wrote: > I can't connect to wlug.org:80, has it been down long? Yeah, the webserver was just upgraded. It should be up now.

Aug. 9, 2006

Another system available...

by Stephen C. Daukas

Hi guys! I have another of Doug's systems available for anyone who would like it: Gateway 2000 P5-90 MHz Tower, 32 Meg Ram w/ *matching* Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor (GW2K Vivitron) 2 HDDs: WD AC 31000H WD AC 36400L 2 Ethernet cards (was being used as a router for the home network) If interested, let me know and I'll bring it to the cookout tomorrow evening! Steve

Aug. 9, 2006