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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:30:37 -0800
From:      bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To:        Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
Subject:   Re: Filesystem full, but df says not.
Message-ID:  <20171214193037.GA66234@www.zefox.net>
In-Reply-To: <C1F3EA93-95A6-435D-9F55-8C08085CF214@dsl-only.net>
References:  <20171214190050.GA66078@www.zefox.net> <C1F3EA93-95A6-435D-9F55-8C08085CF214@dsl-only.net>

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:10:45AM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
> On 2017-Dec-14, at 11:00 AM, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > An rpi2 running -current reported errors during boot like this on the
> > serial console after a graceful reboot:
> > 
> > UFS /dev/ufs/rootfs (/) cylinder checksum failed: cg 0, cgp: 0x4c0a5f41 != bp: 0x38b82866
> > UFS /dev/ufs/rootfs (/) cylinder checksum failed: cg 3, cgp: 0x58e2c1f5 != bp: 0x903c297
> > UFS /dev/ufs/rootfs (/) cylinder checksum failed: cg 0, cgp: 0x4c0a5f41 != bp: 0x38b82866
> 
> Believe the above low-level messages.
> 
> > /: write failed, filesystem is full
> > cp: /etc/motd: No space left on device
> 
> My guess:
> 
> Other places likely translate the more detailed error
> classification to more generic classifications that
> hopefully result in an appropriate handling of the issue
> but is otherwise not necessarily correct.
> 
> In other words: do not believe the later related messages
> in all its detail.
> 
> > .
> > Mounting late filesystems:.
> > Dec 14 10:08:56 www kernel: pid 1394 (cp), uid 0 inumber 53912 on /: filesystem full
> > 
> > Root is on the microSD card, /usr /var /tmp and swap are on usb flash.
> > 
> > Nevertheless, it reached multi-user and allowed me  to  ssh in and run df,
> > which reported
> > Filesystem             1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/ufs/rootfs          1473116   479936   875332    35%    /
> > devfs                          1        1        0   100%    /dev
> > /dev/msdosfs/MSDOSBOOT     51140     7588    43552    15%    /boot/msdos
> > /dev/da0e               52221244 28697844 19345704    60%    /usr
> > /dev/da0d                3044988   517860  2283532    18%    /tmp
> > /dev/da0a                2031132   122868  1745776     7%    /var
> 
> This activity probably did not depend on the bad cylinder
> checksums.
> 
> > Still, any activity that wrote to disk repeated the filesystem full error.
> > 
> > This happened with three different kernels, dating Dec 12, 7 and Aug 26.
> > Running fsck -fy once in single user didn't seem to help, although it 
> > finished without obvious errors. Running fsck -fy repeatedly in single-user 
> > seems to have cleared the error, but it's a surprising development.
> 
> 

Is there any user utility more rigorous than fsck to inspect the filesystem?

The machine is now building world without obvious distress.

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska



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