[lug] Can't write but 56% free?

[Barney Treadway]

Thanks, we have found a tmp dir used by the Interchange commerce system that
is gobbling up 90% of the partition in some session storing activity.

If you bang your head against the monitor for 20 hours, sometimes you'll
actually see clearly I guess....

Thanks to all who provided suggestions!! This group is a good one, I'm all
choked up but that could be the smoke.......

Barney


----- Original Message -----
From: <carl.wagner at level3.com>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [lug] Can't write but 56% free?


> Could you find out where all the small files are, make a new dir somewhere
> (possibly under home), move the files and make a symlink to it?
> Just make sure you don't move system files (libs and stuff in the (s)bin
> dirs).
>
> You seam to have a lot of small/empty files somewhere on your root
partition.
> I don't have separate /usr or /var dirs and yet I am only using 115k
Inodes.
>
> Carl.
>
>
> "D. Stimits" wrote:
> >
> > Barney Treadway wrote:
> > >
> > > jeez I was just trying to figure out statfs :-( df -i is much nicer!
> > >
> > > Definitely got none left, I thought I had "boosted" my available to
100K
> > > thinking that was enough, guess not. This sure seems liek a ton
considering
> > > that partition is some maildirs, no web content, and some stupid
commerce
> > > cgi program???
> > >
> > > [root at www1 barneymail]# df -i
> > > Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda1             256512  256512       0  100% /
> > > /dev/hda6             128768      23  128745    0% /tmp
> > > /dev/hda5             897600   76970  820630    9% /usr
> > > /dev/hda7            1026144   28885  997259    3% /var
> > > /dev/sda1            4480448   79372 4401076    2% /home
> > >
> > > So I'm pounding out ->:
> > > echo "350000" >/proc/sys/fs/inode-max and getting the same number in
df -i,
> > > any idea why it won't stick on 350K for me?
> >
> > I think you are trying to change the max nodes in terms of what the
> > kernel or some part of the system is willing to work with, whereas what
> > you are out of are inodes on the partition itself. If you want to up the
> > number of inodes on ext2, I *think* you probably have to reformat it,
> > although there are probably special (read dangerous) tools to boost it
> > (growfs or partd I think?). One of the nice things about the XFS
> > filesystem is that it can self-grow nodes if it needs them. Long story
> > short, you might be advised to backup somewhere, reformat, and then
> > restore, using a higher inode density during the format.
> >
> > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> >
> > >
> > > MANY MANY MANY thanks already for your help!!!
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bear Giles" <bgiles at coyotesong.com>
> > > To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:35 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [lug] Can't write but 56% free?
> > >
> > > > > [Charset Windows-1252 unsupported, skipping...]
> > > >
> > > > You may be out of inodes.  Try 'df -i'.
> > > >
> > > > Bear
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