Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-13 Thread Varshavchick Alexander
Booting into single-user via serial console, KVM, KVM-over-IP, or iLO/LOM (if HP/Compaq) is sufficient. If you have servers which are remote and you lack any of these features, I'm both surprised and not sure what to tell you. You'll encounter this problem with any OS, not just FreeBSD. I'm

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-13 Thread Varshavchick Alexander
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Adrian Penisoara wrote: What kind of applications are you running on the machine ? Are they mmap'ing files on the filesystem in quesiton (which one ?) ? mainly apache, sphinx's search daemon and several perl scripts AFAIR even if you delete a big file the disk space

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:05:28PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: Booting into single-user via serial console, KVM, KVM-over-IP, or iLO/LOM (if HP/Compaq) is sufficient. If you have servers which are remote and you lack any of these features, I'm both surprised and not sure what to tell

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:26:58PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: I would start by taking the machine down, booting it into single-user, and running fsck -y. background fsck does not catch all errors. Okay then, are there any ways of performing it remotely, without my going to the

FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Varshavchick Alexander
I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours later.

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:34:11PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Varshavchick Alexander
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I would start by taking the machine down, booting it into single-user, and running fsck -y. background fsck does not catch all errors. Background fsck has been turned off from the beginning, and a couple of weeks ago when there was a power break,

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:34:11PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then

FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Varshavchick Alexander
I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours later.

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Wednesday 12 November 2008, Varshavchick Alexander a écrit : I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then all by

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, What kind of applications are you running on the machine ? Are they mmap'ing files on the filesystem in quesiton (which one ?) ? AFAIR even if you delete a big file the disk space may not be reclaimed if a process still has the file open. If you reboot the machine or restart some of

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Sergey Babkin
Varshavchick Alexander wrote: I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then all by itself the error dissapears, only to

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Varshavchick Alexander
I would start by taking the machine down, booting it into single-user, and running fsck -y. background fsck does not catch all errors. Okay then, are there any ways of performing it remotely, without my going to the data center and standing near the server for an hour while it checks? I mean