From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 13:17:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC7B16A41F; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:17:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D5443D79; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:17:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBJDHGhl052885; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:17:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <43A6B2D8.8000907@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:17:12 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukas Ertl References: <200512191220.jBJCKDI8037706@lurza.secnetix.de> <20051219132739.R28071@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20051219132739.R28071@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1212/Sun Dec 18 05:09:50 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystem full - freebsd 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:17:30 -0000 Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Oliver Fromme wrote: > >> > > Perhaps more likely, he was trying to allocate full-size blocks, and >> > > the only things available were fragments. The output from df >> doesn't >> > > distinguish between the two types of available space. You can use >> > > dumpfs(8) to do that. >> > >> > This version seems more likely for me. >> >> In the situation give, I think it is rather unlikely. > > > We have to cope with the same problem here. It's a 662GB filesystem > used for Cyrus imapd mail folders. 55GB free space, plenty of free > inodes, and yet we get "filesystem full" messages. If we remove some > mail folders (postmaster double bounce stuff, thousands of mails per > dir), the kernel stops complaining about a full filesystem (until it > runs out of $factor_x again). > > We are now moving to a new machine, where we will split up the large > filesystem to smaller ones. This is interesting - can you touch a new file? Also, can you post (http please) your dumpfs output also? I realize it might be large. The most interesting pieces to me are the superblock and cylindar summary info, plus maybe the first 100 cylindar group info. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------