FW: [Malvern] Unlimited disk space

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi Darren

I know a Doctor who'll be interested ....

Probably doesn't help much but I had a similar experience with a 20 Gb USB
drive that insisted that it got smaller as the session went on - never lost
any data and when re-started after allowing to cool had gone back to normal
size - it did seem to run somewhat warm and I guess it had a power problem
on board somewhere as no other USB device would work at the same time as the
drive was attached.  It died a sad and noisy death about 18 months ago.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Darren Beale
Sent: 16 May 2006 15:30
To: malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Malvern] Unlimited disk space


Hi,

Mildly amusing: We have a not too elegant but cheap-as-chips backup
setup here where we have a few USB hard drives (a daily, plus a few
rotated weeklies) attached to the (Windows) meeting room PC. These
drives are shared and mounted by a few of our linux dev servers using
samba. Each night we cron a back-up onto these drives, this has been
working fine for about a year.

Anyway, today the meeting room PC complained about a write error to
one of the drives, here's the results of our initial investigations
when looking from one of the machines that write to the share:

flump:/mnt/chav# df -h | grep daily

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
//chav/daily          149G   51G   98G  35% /mnt/chav/daily
<snip>

As you can see it's a 150GB drive and there is about 100GB free (this
is accurate)

What does du think?

flump:/mnt/chav# du -sh * | grep daily
2.1T    daily

Interesting a couple of terabytes in a 150G drive, best check what ls
thinks the size is?

flump:/mnt/chav# ls -l /mnt/chav/daily/
total 2168762739
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     18446744072921928704 May  4 13:34
Exchange.bkf
<snip>

Wow that's a big number, lets try again

flump:/mnt/chav# ls -lh /mnt/chav/daily/
total 2.1T
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          16E May  4 13:34 Exchange.bk

16 Exabytes that's pretty damn good from such a small drive, anyone
want to buy this amazing tardis-like drive?

(we're guessing samba has some issues asit's quite an old version so
will upgrade it in a bit)

--
Darren Beale
http://bealers.com

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