Thanks, Greek. There are still available inodes and the filesystems have been checked and seem to be consistent. I'll have to do the checks again, I guess but I don't think it will solve anything. Thanks. Cupid
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Greek Ordono <[email protected]> wrote: > > The filesystem might be in inconsistent state or out of inodes. > > -- > Greek Ordono > myblog: pinuxadmin.blogspot.com > myppa: launchpad.net/~grexk/+archive/ppa > > --- On *Tue, 4/28/09, Cupid Soriano <[email protected]>* wrote: > > From: Cupid Soriano <[email protected]> > Subject: [plug] Can't create files or folders with purely numeric names > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 12:48 PM > > Hi everyone. > It's been a long while since I posted anything. > I wanted to ask if anyone's ever had any problems creating files with > purely numeric filenames. > The server (RHEL ES4) just suddenly couldn't create/edit files whose names > are made up of numbers. The kernel's really old (2.6.9-22.0.1.EL #1 Tue Oct > 18 18:29:40 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) but never had any problems. > No new apps or modifications were done, too. The sysads never upgraded it > since they didn't want to affect the apps running on it because they could't > afford the downtime. > But now the issue has affected their emails (qmail/Maildir). We've tried > vi, touch, redirects, copy, etc to try and write files to any partitions but > nothing worked. Even mounting an external fs (NFS) didn't work. We > couldn't write to the mounted drive as well. > We're out of ideas as to what caused this. Hopefully some of you might > have some new ones. > For your reference, I found a similar case from 2007 but no clear solution > was given. > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/RedHat/2007-12/msg00079.html > Thanks. > Cupid > -- > It's not what's inside that matters. It's what you do that defines you. > Do Good. Do It Well. (TM) > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- It's not what's inside that matters. It's what you do that defines you. Do Good. Do It Well. (TM)
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