From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 12:32:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DECB16A41F for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:32:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from le@FreeBSD.org) Received: from imap1u.univie.ac.at (murder.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E2143D49 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:32:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from le@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at (pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.2.177]) by imap1u.univie.ac.at (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jBJCVt4U020259 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:31:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:31:55 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <200512191220.jBJCKDI8037706@lurza.secnetix.de> Message-ID: <20051219132739.R28071@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> References: <200512191220.jBJCKDI8037706@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: filesystem full - freebsd 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:32:28 -0000 On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Perhaps more likely, he was trying to allocate full-size blocks, and > > > the only things available were fragments. The output from df doesn't > > > distinguish between the two types of available space. You can use > > > dumpfs(8) to do that. > > > > This version seems more likely for me. > > In the situation give, I think it is rather unlikely. We have to cope with the same problem here. It's a 662GB filesystem used for Cyrus imapd mail folders. 55GB free space, plenty of free inodes, and yet we get "filesystem full" messages. If we remove some mail folders (postmaster double bounce stuff, thousands of mails per dir), the kernel stops complaining about a full filesystem (until it runs out of $factor_x again). We are now moving to a new machine, where we will split up the large filesystem to smaller ones. regards, le -- Lukas Ertl http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/ le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/