[Klug-general] disk space issue

[Dan Attwood]

>Have you tried running df --sync

didn't know that. But I've run it and it makes no difference

> ext filesystems reserve 5% of the available space

The link talks about ext3 - the drive is ext4, those that make a difference?
Also I was to run the tune2fs -c 0 -i 1m /dev/hdXY command is that
something that then happens instantly or will this cause downtime?



On 29 April 2013 09:26, Alan <alan at hipnosi.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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