Thank you all for your response. I am just going to recreate the hfs. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: out of space deleting hfs entry
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:56 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > This is a known problem. The problem is that HFS is a journalling > filesystem. That means that instead of updating the "metadata" directly, > the filesystem driver tries to allocate a new block to receive the > updated metadata (like the directory or inodes, etc). Unfortunately, > when you have literally NO more space, then the changed metadata cannot > be journalled and you are SOL. One of the reasons I am such a big fan of ext3 in that other universe - the 5% reserved space for the root user to be able to get in and fix things like this. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
