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".
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
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@asu.edu
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@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
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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@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@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
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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.
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
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