Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] ext3 filesystem
From: R Parker (rtp405_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 22 2004 - 20:23:07 EET
--- Paul Winkler <pw_lists_AT_slinkp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:00:42AM -0800, R Parker
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My hda1 partition is becoming %100 used and I
> don't
> > know why. This began happening after a system
> lockup
> > where I had to power cycle. I made about 9.7Gig of
> > space available on the drive but after another
> lockup
> > and power cycle the drive is %100 used again.
> >
> > [studio_AT_stepdaddy studio]$ df -H
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%
> Mounted
> > on
> > /dev/hda2 38GB 36GB 118MB 100% /
> > /dev/hda1 104MB 21MB 79MB 21%
> /boot
>
> Maybe not related, but I suspect you have the
> default
> "reserved blocks percentage" (5%). That would
> account
> for the discrepancy between size / used / avail.
> 5% is 1.9 GB and that's a LOT of space to reserve
> for root.
> You can set it with tune2fs, see the man page.
>
> > Could it be that ext3 is doing something to cause
> > this? Perhaps the filesystem needs to be checked.
>
> couldn't hurt to fsck... well, it shouldn't ;-)
I'm backing up now and expecting the worse case.
> > At one point, I removed about two gigs of data and
> 'df
> > -H' reported available space at around 500MB. I'm
> not
> > sure what that might indicate.
>
> I've seen similar behavior with ext3 but I *think*
> in that
> case I had a process that wouldnt' let go of the
> file.
> THe space won't get actually freed while that's
> true.
> Kill should fix that but IIRC it didn't. Reboot
> showed the
> free space I expected.
I was hoping for something like that but booting
hasn't helped. I'll try again after the backups are
complete.
ron
> --
>
> Paul Winkler
> http://www.slinkp.com
>
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