[X-Unix] UFS volume full?

[Eric Crist]

On Oct 13, 2004, at 11:15 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote:

> I have a 20GB UFS partition on my G5, which is used exclusively for a 
> news spool (using leafnode).  Typically, this runs about 10-15% full, 
> with maybe 50 directories containing thousands of files.  However, 
> intermittently, the volume will show as being full - df reports 100% 
> usage (space, not inodes), and write attempts to the volume fail with 
> disk full messages.
>
> When I realize this, I go into the mail spool directory and start 
> doing du -sh summaries on each of the dozen news subdirectories, to 
> see where all the space has gone.  Inevitably, I'll get about halfway 
> through this process, with the directories reporting normal usage; 
> when the volume will revert to normal status.  Note that I'm not 
> deleting any files during this process, just touching them with du.
>
> Any thoughts?  I was thinking inodes or sparse files somehow, but 
> nothing really fits the symptoms.  If I hit a file limit in a 
> directory, would that report the whole volume as full?
>
> KeS

Try doing an fsck on the disk to make sure everything is OK.  Other 
than that, are you using UFS1 or UFS2?  Is the entire 20GB one logical 
partition?

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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks
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