Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-14 Thread Norberto Bensa
Christoph Gysin wrote: > Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Christoph Gysin wrote: > >>What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp? > > > > he's using a pipe (stdin | stdout) > > What have pipes to do with /tmp? I don't know. It was just the case sometime ago on one of my boxes. Perhaps, as

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-12 Thread mat
> Y'know, what city is this machine in? One of us might be nearby and > willing to talk the data center folks through the issue. *shrug* Just an > idea. Such a nice proposition. Thanks a lot. The machine is somewhere in texas... I don't know where exactly. Anyway, the housing company is offeri

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-09 Thread Christoph Gysin
Norberto Bensa wrote: Christoph Gysin wrote: What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp? he's using a pipe (stdin | stdout) What have pipes to do with /tmp? A pipe is nothing more than a buffer (in memory) between two processes. If there's not enough memory, the buffer coul

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Norberto Bensa
Christoph Gysin wrote: > What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp? he's using a pipe (stdin | stdout) and nope... I didn't read the whole message. -- Norberto Bensa informática BeNSA 4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina pgp6crv3HaLks.pgp Description: PG

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
Christopher Fisk wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How useful is this system to you, when you can't even write to the disk? I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast to tune my fs. "If it's not broken, don't fix it. Yikes. Y'know, what city is this machine in? One of us might be nearby and willing to talk the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:53:54 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've attached the output of e2fsck -n. Could you please tell me how bad it > looks? Are there questions to which answering yes is dangerous? > > e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) > Warning! /dev/hda2 is mounted. That is done in a mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How useful is this system to you, when you can't even write to the disk? I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast to tune my fs. "If it's not b

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: Check your temp partitions... What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp? Just curious... He didn't read the whole message, saw disk full and said oh, his temp partition is overflowing. The correct answer here is that you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread gentoo
> How useful is this system to you, when you can't even write to the disk? I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast to tune my fs. "If it's not broken, don't fix it. > I would take to syste

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with this, fsck won't change anything to my partition at all? nope. and what about this line from the output of tune2fs? Filesystem state: clean with errors Is it like "critical" or like "informative"? only fsck can tell... Since e2fsck _will_ find errors,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread gentoo
Le Lundi, 8 Août 2005 14.10, Christoph Gysin a ecrit : > >>Did you try fsck? > > > > nope :-( > > I'm a bit too afraid to try it. It's a production server with only one > > partition and it's located about 6000 miles away. If something goes > > wrong, I'll be really in a bad situation. > > > > I th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try fsck? nope :-( I'm a bit too afraid to try it. It's a production server with only one partition and it's located about 6000 miles away. If something goes wrong, I'll be really in a bad situation. I think I'll have to do it anyway, but I'm checking for li

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
Norberto Bensa wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzip2: No space left on device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Check your temp partitio

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread gentoo
Le Lundi, 8 Août 2005 13.57, vous avez ecrit : > > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows. > > bzip2: No space left on device > >         Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > Chec

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Norberto Bensa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. > bzip2: No space left on device > Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > Check your temp partitions... --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread gentoo
> > Aug 8 03:17:00 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): > > ext3_new_block: > > block(14366126) >= blocks count(14366126) - block_group = 438, es == > > c2510400 > > [...] > > Aug 8 08:46:52 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): > > ext3_new_block: > > block(14372149) >= blo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aug 8 03:17:00 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14366126) >= blocks count(14366126) - block_group = 438, es == c2510400 [...] Aug 8 08:46:52 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14372149) >= blocks coun

[gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread gentoo
Hello, This is OT, but I'm kind of worried and google hasn't been my friend... * I'm doing backups of my server everynight and had the following errors in the mail from the cron output this morning. repeated a dozen of times. bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzi