[X-Unix] UFS volume full?

[Kevin Stevens]

On Oct 14, 2004, at 06:09, Eric Crist wrote:

> 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.

Done, no errors reported.

>   Other than that, are you using UFS1 or UFS2?

Umm, not sure how I'd tell?  I'm using whatever Panther creates when 
you set up a UFS partition using Disk Utility.

>   Is the entire 20GB one logical partition?

Sorry, not sure I understand your question.  It's a slice 
(/dev/disk1s5) out of a 250GB drive, mounted at /Volumes/Unix.  It has 
the directory /var/spool/news with all the files under it, and that is 
soft-linked from the "real" /var/spool/news.

KeS