Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:38:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40610 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201301130638.r0D6cVsD038709@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Sun Jan 13 06:38:31 2013 New Revision: 40610 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40610 Log: Answer the question "I can not delete or or create files on my ZFS pool. How can I fix this?" Submitted by: Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> Reviewed by: -doc Approved by: bcr (mentor) Patch recreated from mailing list content Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun Jan 13 06:30:15 2013 (r40609) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun Jan 13 06:38:31 2013 (r40610) @@ -4472,6 +4472,32 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting> slower.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> + + <qandaentry> + <question id="zpool-fully-full"> + <para>I can not delete or create files on my ZFS pool. + How can I fix this?</para> + </question> + + <answer> + <para>This could happen because the pool is 100% full. + ZFS requires space on the disk in order to write + transaction metadata. In order to restore the pool + to a usable state, truncate a file you want to + delete.</para> + + <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>truncate -s 0 <replaceable>unimportant-file</replaceable></userinput></screen> + + <para>File truncation works because a new transaction is + not started, new spare blocks are created instead.</para> + + <note> + <para>On systems with additional ZFS dataset tuning, + such as deduplication, the space may not be immediately + available</para> + </note> + </answer> + </qandaentry> </qandaset> </sect1> </chapter>
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