has anyone encountered file system errors with XFS? I had a problem just yesterday wherein after some file operations in GNOME, my /home partition with 4 GB just went from 30% usage to 100% usage. I verified the contents of my own folder and I'm still using only around 1.2 GB. When I ran mc, a red dialog came up warning about .gnome-errors pointing to some non-existant file. Stat()ing the file doesn't do, as the stat() calls fails on that file. Can't delete it either for the same reason. But plain ls sees the .gnome-errors file the problem is local only to my folder (fortunately). Deleting my local folder too was impossible even for root because of the .gnome-errors file. The only resort I did was to move the contents of my personal folder (I can't tar -cvvf user.tar user/* since it would copy the .gnome-errors file to the archive) to somewhere else. still df would show an abnormally high space-used percentage.
I even tried using xfs_repair to repair this error but xfs_repair would return with a failure message due to having run out of hard disk space. Remounting the disk after unmounting or even rebooting doesn't solve the problem. The only time I never got this problem back was after moving all things in my personal directory to another partition then issue mkfs -t xfs -f to create a new XFS filesystem. then moved back all the contents of my directory from the backup. Any ideas what happened? There are no extended attributes used within the local folder's files (such as ACLs). Is there any workaround aside from what I've done? Or is this a bug that must be/had been addressed? How can avoid such from happening again? (this was the second time, but the other time, it wasn't complaining about .gnome-errors but it claimed to see the adom directory when in fact i've deleted it. This is the only bad part in my use of XFS. Paolo Alexis Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
