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On 19 December 2012 11:24, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> wrote:
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How is this?
commit 718eb1816af2871981f338ed509fced6b4c570fb
Author: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Date: Wed Dec 19 09:26:56 2012 -0500
Answer the question "I can not delete or or create files on my ZFS pool.
How can I fix this?"
Submitted by: Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: -doc
Approved by: ??? (mentor)
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
index 7410446..999a5a9 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
@@ -4464,6 +4464,26 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
slower.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
+
+ <qandaentry>
+ <question id="zpool-fully-full">
+ <para>I can not delete or create files on my ZFS pool.
+ How can I fix this?</para>
+ </question>
+
+ <answer>
+ <para>This could happen because the pool is 100% full.
+ ZFS requires space on the disk in order to write
+ transaction meta data. In order to restore the pool
+ to a usable state, truncate a file you want to
+ delete.</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>truncate -s 0
<replaceable>unimportant-file</replaceable></userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>File truncation works because a new transaction is
+ not started, new spare blocks are created instead.</para>
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
</qandaset>
</sect1>
</chapter>
--
Eitan Adler
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