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Re: problems with full filesystem?

To: Andrew Lyons <lyonsam@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: problems with full filesystem?
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:02:19 -0500
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Andrew Lyons wrote:
I have a very serious problem.  I was making a tarball and I
accidentally completely filled up my filesystem.  Now whenever I try
to access it, I get:

/bin/ls: reading directory .: Input/output error

sometimes it tells me it "cannot allocate memory."

here is some relevant information:

"ogd:/ # mount
...
/dev/hda3 on /home type xfs (rw)
..."

"ogd:/ # xfs_check /dev/hda3
xfs_check: /dev/hda3 contains a mounted and writable filesystem

fatal error -- couldn't initialize XFS library"

normal for a mounted filesystem

"ogd:/ # xfs_info /dev/hda3
xfs_info: /dev/hda3 is not a mounted XFS filesystem"

xfs_info points at a mount point, not a device. (non-obvious, I know...)

any help would be greatly appreciated. this is some sort of disaster.

check your log messages, odds are the filesystem got shut down on an error.

-Eric


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