[Klug-general] disk space issue

[Alan]

ext filesystems reserve 5% of the available space 
reasons  and solution explained here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext3#Reclaim_Reserved_Filesystem_Space

I hope I have not misunderstood, with relevance to VM's...

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:13:58 +0100
Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi all hopefully someone can point me to a good solution to this.
> 
> I have a VM server running on VMare. Recently if started to run out of
> space on it's /var disk - which is a thin provisioned disk. We gave it some
> more space and I rebooted the server into gparted and expanded the disks
> into the new free space.
> 
> Today I've come in to find that the /var disk had run out of space
> completely. I did a df -h and can see the following:
> 
> Filesystem           Size   Used  Avail   use% mounted on
> /dev/sdb1             370G  348G  3.0G 100% /var
> 
> 
> so the 370 gig disk has only used 348 gigs and yet is 100% percent full
> 
> my imeadiate thought was I had run out of inodes, however:
> 
> filesystem           inodes      iused    ifree           iuse%
> /dev/sdb1            24576000 430482 24145518    2% /var
> 
> so I have loads of them free.
> 
> I also rebooted the server into grparted and double checked the disk
> partition and also ran a disk check from here - this flagged up no errors.
> 
> I've now gone through and deleted some stuff to give me some breathing room
> but I really need that space back.
> 
> Does any ones have any suggestions please?
> 
> Dan