On an ext3 filesystem, what would cause the system to claim it is out of disk space for a program writing information to disk, when df -h shows ample GB available and the file is being written to local disk rather than an nfs-mounted filesystem? I believe the hard drive is good. Ideas welcome. Thanks. Scott
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 09:23 -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote:> On an ext3 filesystem, what would cause the system to claim it is out of > disk space for a program writing information to disk, when df -h shows > ample GB available and the file is being written to local disk rather than > an nfs-mounted filesystem?The percentage "reserved for the super user", perhaps? By default, 5% of ext2/3 disk space are reserved and can only be written by root. You can change this using the tune2fs utility: tune2fs -m 0 /dev/whatever Hth, Torsten
Scott Ehrlich wrote:> On an ext3 filesystem, what would cause the system to claim it is out of > disk space for a program writing information to disk, when df -h shows > ample GB available and the file is being written to local disk rather > than an nfs-mounted filesystem? > > I believe the hard drive is good. > > Ideas welcome.check that it is not out if inodes.
Scott Ehrlich wrote:> On an ext3 filesystem, what would cause the system to claim it is out of > disk space for a program writing information to disk, when df -h shows > ample GB available and the file is being written to local disk rather > than an nfs-mounted filesystem? > > I believe the hard drive is good. > > Ideas welcome.If the application is old it might not have been compiled with large file support. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On Saturday 12 January 2008 21:23:13 Scott Ehrlich wrote:> On an ext3 filesystem, what would cause the system to claim it is out of > disk space for a program writing information to disk, when df -h shows > ample GB available and the file is being written to local disk rather than > an nfs-mounted filesystem?It's a long shot, maybe the impossing filesize limit is the program itself such as apache's 2GB limit? -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 10:02:09 up 1 day, 14:00, 2.6.22-14-generic GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org The real challenge of teaching is getting your students motivated to learn. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080113/77fd8fbb/attachment-0002.sig>
Scott Ehrlich wrote:> On an ext3 filesystem, what would cause the system to claim it is out of > disk space for a program writing information to disk, when df -h shows > ample GB available and the file is being written to local disk rather > than an nfs-mounted filesystem?Hi Scott: I had this exact same problem with a machine just a couple days ago. In my case, unmounting the file system and running e2fsck -f on the partition fixed the problem. At least it might be worth a try. thanks Sean