Hello On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 12:16 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Hi all. > > I just ran out of space while compiling, and went to delete everything > in /var/tmp/portage. I get the error: > > rm: reading directory > `/var/tmp/portage/nautilus-2.12.2//work/nautilus-2.12.2/cut-n-paste-code': > Input/output error > rm: cannot remove directory > `/var/tmp/portage/nautilus-2.12.2//work/nautilus-2.12.2': Directory not > empty > > This is with: > rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/* > > Also, I've got the following in my kernel messages: > > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: extent2tail > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:733)[nikita-2282]: > WARNING: Partial conversion of 6903045: 0 of 2: -28 > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: release_unix_file > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2637)[nikita-3233]: > WARNING: Failed to convert in release_unix_file (6903045) > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: extent2tail > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:733)[nikita-2282]: > WARNING: Partial conversion of 6903078: 0 of 4: -28 > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: release_unix_file > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2637)[nikita-3233]: > WARNING: Failed to convert in release_unix_file (6903078) > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: extent2tail > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:733)[nikita-2282]: > WARNING: Partial conversion of 6903089: 0 of 3: -28 > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: release_unix_file > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2637)[nikita-3233]: > WARNING: Failed to convert in release_unix_file (6903089) > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: extent2tail > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:733)[nikita-2282]: > WARNING: Partial conversion of 6903079: 0 of 3: -28 > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: release_unix_file > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2637)[nikita-3233]: > WARNING: Failed to convert in release_unix_file (6903079) > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: extent2tail > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:733)[nikita-2282]: > WARNING: Partial conversion of 6903062: 0 of 4: -28 > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: release_unix_file > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2637)[nikita-3233]: > WARNING: Failed to convert in release_unix_file (6903062) > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: extent2tail > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:733)[nikita-2282]: > WARNING: Partial conversion of 6903093: 0 of 3: -28 > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: release_unix_file > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2637)[nikita-3233]: > WARNING: Failed to convert in release_unix_file (6903093) > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: extent2tail > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:733)[nikita-2282]: > WARNING: Partial conversion of 6903095: 0 of 4: -28 > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: release_unix_file > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2637)[nikita-3233]: > WARNING: Failed to convert in release_unix_file (6903095) > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: extent2tail > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:733)[nikita-2282]: > WARNING: Partial conversion of 6909813: 0 of 3: -28 > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: release_unix_file > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2637)[nikita-3233]: > WARNING: Failed to convert in release_unix_file (6909813) > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: extent2tail > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:733)[nikita-2282]: > WARNING: Partial conversion of 6909812: 0 of 4: -28 > reiser4[emerge(11397)]: release_unix_file > (fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c:2637)[nikita-3233]: > WARNING: Failed to convert in release_unix_file (6909812) > > These warning seem to be produced at the point where I ran out of space > ( I see the 'emerge' process mentioned ). > > After rebooting, I no longer get these kernel messages, however I am > still unable to delete the nautilus folder. I still get: > > rm: reading directory > `/var/tmp/portage/nautilus-2.12.2//work/nautilus-2.12.2/cut-n-paste-code': > Input/output error > rm: cannot remove directory > `/var/tmp/portage/nautilus-2.12.2//work/nautilus-2.12.2': Directory not > empty > > I'd very much prefer it if I didn't have to run fsck.reiser4 on this > partition, as it's the root partition on my laptop, and I've had *bad* > experiences with data loss after using fsck.resier4 before. Is this my > only option? >
Are you able to delete other files/directories? If yes, you can probably rename nautilus directory somewhere and forget about it. But, as long as something started to go wrong - you should find possibility to fsck the partition at some time.
