<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>Have you tried running df --sync</span><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">didn't know that. But I've run it and it makes no difference</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ext filesystems reserve 5% of the available space</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The link talks about ext3 - the drive is ext4, those that make a difference?</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Also I was to run the </span><span style="background-color:rgb(235,241,245);line-height:1.1em">tune2fs -c 0 -i 1m /dev/hdXY command is that something that then happens instantly or will this cause downtime?</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 April 2013 09:26, Alan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@hipnosi.org" target="_blank">alan@hipnosi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">ext filesystems reserve 5% of the available space<br>
reasons and solution explained here:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext3#Reclaim_Reserved_Filesystem_Space" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext3#Reclaim_Reserved_Filesystem_Space</a><br>
<br>
I hope I have not misunderstood, with relevance to VM's...<br>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:13:58 +0100<br>
Dan Attwood <<a href="mailto:danattwood@gmail.com">danattwood@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> hi all hopefully someone can point me to a good solution to this.<br>
><br>
> I have a VM server running on VMare. Recently if started to run out of<br>
> space on it's /var disk - which is a thin provisioned disk. We gave it some<br>
> more space and I rebooted the server into gparted and expanded the disks<br>
> into the new free space.<br>
><br>
> Today I've come in to find that the /var disk had run out of space<br>
> completely. I did a df -h and can see the following:<br>
><br>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail use% mounted on<br>
> /dev/sdb1 370G 348G 3.0G 100% /var<br>
><br>
><br>
> so the 370 gig disk has only used 348 gigs and yet is 100% percent full<br>
><br>
> my imeadiate thought was I had run out of inodes, however:<br>
><br>
> filesystem inodes iused ifree iuse%<br>
> /dev/sdb1 24576000 430482 24145518 2% /var<br>
><br>
> so I have loads of them free.<br>
><br>
> I also rebooted the server into grparted and double checked the disk<br>
> partition and also ran a disk check from here - this flagged up no errors.<br>
><br>
> I've now gone through and deleted some stuff to give me some breathing room<br>
> but I really need that space back.<br>
><br>
> Does any ones have any suggestions please?<br>
><br>
> Dan<br>
<br>
<br>
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