[clug] Ext3 /var is full but not?

[Howard Lowndes]

Try df -i
and see if you are out if inodes.

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Stephen Jenkin wrote:

> Is this the 'unnamed inode' problem??  In Unix inodes are files - and they
> do not have to appear in a filesystem/directory.  They are files held open
> by processes.  When the file is closed, the inode & its space are
> released.
> 
> 'df' reports real file system numbers [remembering that BSD 'ffs' like
> file systems reserve 10% of space.  Normal users get 'disk full' at this
> point, privileged users get the real 100%]
> 
> 'du' goes through the inodes in the directory tree totaling space - and by
> definition misses unnamed open inodes.
> 
> 'lsof' is your friend :-)  lsof /dev/hda5 [or /var]
> 
> Here's some output [spot the cheat - I moved the heading line by hand]
> [root at grub root]# lsof /dev/hdb8|sort +6nr|head -4
> COMMAND    PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE   SIZE    NODE NAME
> nmbd       898 root    3w   REG   3,72 536775 1485124 /var/log/samba/log.nmbd
> nmbd       900 root    3w   REG   3,72 536775 1485124 /var/log/samba/log.nmbd
> kdm       1067 root    9u  FIFO   3,72         489604 /var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0
> 
> 
> HTH
> sj
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> 
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Michael Still wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I have a /var whihc is 400mb. It only has just over 100mb on it, but when
> > you try to add data (e.g. echo "foo" > /var/foo) I get back a "no space on
> > device" message.
> > 
> > I've tried reducing the reserved percentage. I've tried rebooting, so it's
> > not old filehandles (although it was happy briefly after a reboot).
> > 
> > Any ideas whats happened and how to fix it? It's very annoying, as my DNS,
> > DHCP, NFS servers all now refuse to respond...
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mikal
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Michael Still (mikal at stillhq.com) | Stage 1: Steal underpants
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> > 
> > 
> 

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