You can truncate a file: Echo "" > bigfile
That will free up space without the 'rm' -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Dyer-Bennet Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] When Zpool has no space left and no snapshots On Wed, September 22, 2010 21:25, Aleksandr Levchuk wrote: > I ran out of space, consequently could not rm or truncate files. (It > make sense because it's a copy-on-write and any transaction needs to > be written to disk. It worked out really well - all I had to do is > destroy some snapshots.) > > If there are no snapshots to destroy, how to prepare for a situation > when a ZFS pool looses it's last free byte? Add some more space somewhere around 90%, or earlier :-). If you do get stuck, you can add another vdev when full, too. Just remember that you're stuck with whatever you add "forever", since there's no way to remove a vdev from a pool. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [email protected]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
