From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Owen Dunn <osd1000@cam.ac.uk>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: No space left on device on xfs filesystem with 1.6TB free
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:25:44 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090122232544.GX10158@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0901221514190.4084@bogon.housecafe.de>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:15:59PM +0100, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> The only way to fix this is to move data around to free up space
>> below 1TB. Find your oldest data (i.e. that was around before even
>> the first grow) and move it off the filesystem (move, not copy).
>> Then if you copy it back on, the data blocks will end up above 1TB
>> and that should leave you with plenty of space for inodes below 1TB.
>
> With volumes bigger and bigger, should this procedure be mentioned in
> the xfs_growfs manpage or in the XFS FAQ?
Sure: the FAQ is a wiki now so you can add it yourself. ;)
http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-22 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-21 10:33 No space left on device on xfs filesystem with 1.6TB free Owen Dunn
2009-01-21 17:49 ` Bryon Roche
2009-01-21 20:08 ` Patrick Schreurs
[not found] ` <20090121225453.GN10158@disturbed>
2009-01-22 3:09 ` Dave Chinner
2009-01-22 10:25 ` Patrick Schreurs
2009-01-22 17:39 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-22 14:15 ` Christian Kujau
2009-01-22 23:25 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2009-01-23 8:21 ` Christian Kujau
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