From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:35959 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752435Ab2FQIFI (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2012 04:05:08 -0400 Received: by obbtb18 with SMTP id tb18so6670912obb.19 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 01:05:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1339910379.1538.4.camel@ierdnac-hp> References: <20120616145704.039809d2@sf.home> <1339910379.1538.4.camel@ierdnac-hp> From: rupert THURNER Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:04:47 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: cannot remove files: "rm" gives "no space left on device", 3.2.0-24, ubuntu To: ierdnah@gmail.com Cc: Sergei Trofimovich , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Andrei Popa wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 06:14 +0200, rupert THURNER wrote: >> >> Will result in anything reported in 'dmesg' output? >> > [ 6431.514454] device label 388gb-data devid 1 transid 1086 /dev/sda6 >> > [ 6431.514969] btrfs: disabling disk space caching >> > [ 6431.514977] btrfs: force clearing of disk cache >> tried the same with kernel versions from >> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/: >> * 3.2.20 >> * 3.4.0 >> with version 3.4.0, i could delete one tiny file, but only one. peter >> mentioned before to run the rm as root. yes, i did that, with all >> kernel versions, the error was the same all the time. > > Have you tried to delete the files with "echo > file" ? This will empty > the file without requiring a new metadata allocation. thanks for the hint! i did with the original kernel, but now i tried it as root and with the 3.4.0 kernel as well. "no space left on device". is there a special kernel version or a special btrfs tool which allows to remove a file without writing more data? rupert.