Ext3 users - Sep 2002 - Disk full detection not possible ?

It appears to me, that I get no error returned on writes when the disk becomes
full.
I even tried to execute a fsync but no error returned. However, the file is
truncated.
The partition is running as described below?
Can this really be true? 

RedHat 7.2, Linux version 2.4.9-31
LABEL=/home   /home    ext3    exec,dev,suid,rw,usrquota 1 2

- Jørgen Thomsen

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:58:55AM +0200, Jørgen Thomsen
wrote:
> It appears to me, that I get no error returned on writes when the disk
becomes full.
You definitely should get an error from the kernel, but some
applications silently ignore that.

Could you show what command was failing to return the error, and run
"strace" on it?

--Stephen

Hooray, alarm off.
The strace showed errors returned.
The documentation on the fprintf error return values is not clear.
Checking errno in my C program was a better idea.

- Jørgen