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>To free up some space you may try to zero out the contents of your /var/log directory >like /var/log/messages. Back up first if u need it. >Most of the time its one eating up the disk space. I think you misunderstood the problem. The problem is isolated only in a partition (/home), as my root, /var, /tmp and /usr are separate. The problem is as in you're only using 30% of your disk the previous minute and suddenly it skyrockets to 100% the next. You can't rm -rf the affected directory because it can't stat a specific file (in this case .gnome-errors). The problem is not GNOME, for it happened when I deleted adom from my directory before, and adom is being reported to be pointing to some non- existent file. performing plain ls on the file would make you see the file, but you can't open it, check the properties or modify/delete it (since doing such involves invoking the stat() function call). As such, .gnome-errors can't be seen by mc (since mc shows the stats of each file, such as file size, file creation, etc...). I concluded that this is already a file system problem since even fsck.xfs (which does nothing at all) or xfs_repair can't repair the file. Even though I move the other contents of the folder to another partition, the remaining disk space in /home is absurdly high for some partition to contain no more files except for .gnome-errors (as in 96% partition usage afterwards). Nothing I mentioned works (rm -rf, wipe, move other files to other partitions, xfs_repair, delete the file that can't be stat()ed). The only way out of the predicament was to reformat the XFS partition. There ought to be another way if this isn't a bug, and the situation has been addressed anyhow. Btw, I'm using the latest xfsprogs (since I synchronize to XFS CVS almost every week, and I "debianize" and install them quite so often), so it's not the version I'm using that is the culprit. Any ideas? Paolo Alexis Falcone >Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > >> 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] > >-- >Lito A. Lampitoc >PLDT Foundation http://www.codewan.com.ph >-- >"If you think you're good, you're not." __________________________________ 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]
