* missing space on ext2fs scsi drive
@ 1999-09-14 1:45 Timothy Wall
1999-09-14 1:54 ` Joseph Garcia
1999-09-14 2:38 ` Hollis R Blanchard
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From: Timothy Wall @ 1999-09-14 1:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev
I've run into an odd problem that I'm not quite sure how to diagnose.
My root partition (a 2Gb partition on an 8Gb drive) shows (with "df")
around 55% usage (2203440 1k-blocks, a little over half used) and yet
fails complaining that the disk is full. I don't recall exactly how I
partitioned the disk (probably pdisk).
Is my ext2fs accounting screwed? Why does the FS think there is no
space when writing, but show space with "df" ?
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* Re: missing space on ext2fs scsi drive
1999-09-14 1:45 missing space on ext2fs scsi drive Timothy Wall
@ 1999-09-14 1:54 ` Joseph Garcia
1999-09-14 2:38 ` Hollis R Blanchard
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From: Joseph Garcia @ 1999-09-14 1:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Timothy Wall; +Cc: linuxppc-dev
Timothy Wall wrote:
>
> I've run into an odd problem that I'm not quite sure how to diagnose.
>
> My root partition (a 2Gb partition on an 8Gb drive) shows (with "df")
> around 55% usage (2203440 1k-blocks, a little over half used) and yet
> fails complaining that the disk is full. I don't recall exactly how I
> partitioned the disk (probably pdisk).
>
> Is my ext2fs accounting screwed? Why does the FS think there is no
> space when writing, but show space with "df" ?
I had this problem when i installed 1999 with it reformatting my drives. The
problem is it didn't recognize the partition geom right. My problem was i had a
2 gig partition, it was formatted as if it were 1 gig, and its max files were
only 65k of them. So when i tried to have more then 65000+ files on this drive,
it still had space, but no blank table entries for the new files. whoops.
Im not sure what caused it, but what i did was put the files on another
drive(s), reformat the drive (which did it right (?)), and move them back. I'd
like to think there is a better solution. Ideas?
Hope this helps. Good luck.
--
Joseph P. Garcia jpgarcia@execpc.com jpgarcia@lidar.ssec.wisc.edu
CS Undergraduate Student Employee - Systems Programmer
University of Wisconsin - Madison UW Lidar Group
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* Re: missing space on ext2fs scsi drive
1999-09-14 1:45 missing space on ext2fs scsi drive Timothy Wall
1999-09-14 1:54 ` Joseph Garcia
@ 1999-09-14 2:38 ` Hollis R Blanchard
1999-09-14 12:50 ` Timothy Wall
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Hollis R Blanchard @ 1999-09-14 2:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Timothy Wall; +Cc: linuxppc-dev
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Timothy Wall wrote:
>
> I've run into an odd problem that I'm not quite sure how to diagnose.
>
> My root partition (a 2Gb partition on an 8Gb drive) shows (with "df")
> around 55% usage (2203440 1k-blocks, a little over half used) and yet
> fails complaining that the disk is full. I don't recall exactly how I
> partitioned the disk (probably pdisk).
>
> Is my ext2fs accounting screwed? Why does the FS think there is no
> space when writing, but show space with "df" ?
Run 'df -i'. This shows you your inode usage. Full, isn't it? Time to backup,
reformat (with mke2fs), and reinstall.
-Hollis
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* Re: missing space on ext2fs scsi drive
1999-09-14 2:38 ` Hollis R Blanchard
@ 1999-09-14 12:50 ` Timothy Wall
1999-09-14 20:02 ` Hollis R Blanchard
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Timothy Wall @ 1999-09-14 12:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hollis R Blanchard; +Cc: linuxppc-dev
Yup, that's the problem. It seems the installer short-inoded me.
Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Timothy Wall wrote:
> >
> > I've run into an odd problem that I'm not quite sure how to diagnose.
> >
> > My root partition (a 2Gb partition on an 8Gb drive) shows (with "df")
> > around 55% usage (2203440 1k-blocks, a little over half used) and yet
> > fails complaining that the disk is full. I don't recall exactly how I
> > partitioned the disk (probably pdisk).
> >
> > Is my ext2fs accounting screwed? Why does the FS think there is no
> > space when writing, but show space with "df" ?
>
> Run 'df -i'. This shows you your inode usage. Full, isn't it? Time to backup,
> reformat (with mke2fs), and reinstall.
>
> -Hollis
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* Re: missing space on ext2fs scsi drive
1999-09-14 12:50 ` Timothy Wall
@ 1999-09-14 20:02 ` Hollis R Blanchard
1999-09-14 22:15 ` Timothy Wall
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Hollis R Blanchard @ 1999-09-14 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Timothy Wall; +Cc: linuxppc-dev
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Timothy Wall wrote:
>
> Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Timothy Wall wrote:
> > >
> > > I've run into an odd problem that I'm not quite sure how to diagnose.
> > >
> > > My root partition (a 2Gb partition on an 8Gb drive) shows (with "df")
> > > around 55% usage (2203440 1k-blocks, a little over half used) and yet
> > > fails complaining that the disk is full. I don't recall exactly how I
> > > partitioned the disk (probably pdisk).
> > >
> > > Is my ext2fs accounting screwed? Why does the FS think there is no
> > > space when writing, but show space with "df" ?
> >
> > Run 'df -i'. This shows you your inode usage. Full, isn't it? Time to
> > backup, reformat (with mke2fs), and reinstall.
>
> Yup, that's the problem. It seems the installer short-inoded me.
Yeah. The problem (I hear) is that just running mke2fs on a large hard drive
from the installer will lock up machines will less than very large amounts of
RAM. Although now that I think about it, if you're able to run mke2fs by hand
and it works fine, maybe there really isn't a problem. What are your system
specs, and can you run mke2fs sans arguments without problem?
-Hollis
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* Re: missing space on ext2fs scsi drive
1999-09-14 20:02 ` Hollis R Blanchard
@ 1999-09-14 22:15 ` Timothy Wall
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Timothy Wall @ 1999-09-14 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hollis R Blanchard; +Cc: linuxppc-dev
I'm running a 604e (PowerCenterPro 180) with 128 Mb RAM, 128Mb swap.
The root partition is on either a 4Gb or 8Gb disk (I think it's on the 8Gb).
I've run mke2fs sans arguments w/o problems, but on smaller disks (I've got an 8,
a 4, a 2, and a 0.7Gb).
Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
>
> Yeah. The problem (I hear) is that just running mke2fs on a large hard drive
> from the installer will lock up machines will less than very large amounts of
> RAM. Although now that I think about it, if you're able to run mke2fs by hand
> and it works fine, maybe there really isn't a problem. What are your system
> specs, and can you run mke2fs sans arguments without problem?
>
> -Hollis
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