Hi folks.
I just got through a day and a half of trying to find out why I couldn't do a backup, this after installing 2.4.3b2 over my 2.4.2p2++++ install about the 3rd of Jan 2002. amcheck and df both kept saying my 40g drive was full, when the last time I checked it a week or so back it was sitting at 14% full. That was my clue that it probably was just one totally humungous file someplace, the question was where on a 40g drive? I wrote several one liners based on tree, and ls -lR, trying to see if it was amanda related, but it turns out I had to go looking by hand to find the drive space filler. I don't recall if I had noted the 'configdir/tapestatus' file as ever being anything but a zero length file before, but when I did an ls -l in the /usr/local/etc/amanda directory, it stuck out like a very long, badly swollen sore thumb as it had blown itself up to 30,367,168,256 bytes, aka 30 gigabytes! Humm, it was in one of the outputs of my searchs, here -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 30307168256 Jan 8 08:30 \ tapestatus (darned kmail, wraps lines) It took rm -f about 3 minutes to delete it, and the drive is now back to 18% full, so I'm a much happier camper that I was 10 hours ago when I gave up and went to work. I had been fooling around, trying to make the "emubarcode" option work, but gave up as it, even if defined but = 0, gave me database format errors, so apparently thats not an option one can turn on and off at will. I relate this as it may have something to do with a 30 gigabyte tapestatus file. But I will let the resident experts digest this one, and tell me if its safe to continue before I remove the #'s from the first character position of each amanda related line in my crontab. Trying to recover from a full drive when even e2fsck can't do anything but puke all over itself when it runs into a file that size isn't exactly my cup of tea. While the filesystem may now handle files into the petabyte range as of kernel-2.4.13-8, I don't recall seeing anything about e2fsck also being so blessed. Can someone clarify that please? -- Cheers, gene
