Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB
available?

camille ~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% /
udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev
/dev/sda7 52G 40G 12G 78% /mnt/store
shm 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm
catherine:/backup 44G 34G 8.5G 80% /backup/catherine

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 13:51, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
> couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
> a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB
> available?

Hi,

that might be the 5% which are reserved for the super-user. (on ext FSs)

regards,

Boris.
>
> camille ~ # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% /
> udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev
> /dev/sda7 52G 40G 12G 78% /mnt/store
> shm 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm
> catherine:/backup 44G 34G 8.5G 80% /backup/catherine
>
>
>
>



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[ 02.09.2008 13:51 ], Michael Sullivan :
> Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
> couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
> a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB
> available?
>
> camille ~ # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% /
> udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev
> /dev/sda7 52G 40G 12G 78% /mnt/store
> shm 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm
> catherine:/backup 44G 34G 8.5G 80% /backup/catherine
Hello
If this is ext3 partition, it may be root reserved space.
You reduce it by running as root
tune2fs /dev/sda6 -m <reserved-blocks-percentage>
or
tune2fs /dev/sda6 -r <reserved-blocks-count>
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:51:14 -0500, Michael Sullivan
<michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
> couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
> a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB
> available?
>
> camille ~ # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% /

If you use journalised filesystem like ext3, it save some space for the
filesystem logs and for the root user.

> udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev
> /dev/sda7 52G 40G 12G 78% /mnt/store
> shm 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm
> catherine:/backup 44G 34G 8.5G 80% /backup/catherine

HTH.

--
Xavier

On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
> couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
> a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB
> available?
>
> camille ~ # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% /
> udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev
> /dev/sda7 52G 40G 12G 78% /mnt/store
> shm 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm
> catherine:/backup 44G 34G 8.5G 80% /backup/catherine

you have space left, but the inodes are all used up.

Typical problem for fs like extX.

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
> > couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
> > a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB
> > available?
> >
> > camille ~ # df -h
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% /
> > udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev
> > /dev/sda7 52G 40G 12G 78% /mnt/store
> > shm 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm
> > catherine:/backup 44G 34G 8.5G 80% /backup/catherine
>
> you have space left, but the inodes are all used up.
>
> Typical problem for fs like extX.
>
>

What fs should I use instead? For future reference what's the current
standard?

Michael Sullivan wrote:

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

you have space left, but the inodes are all used up.

Typical problem for fs like extX.




What fs should I use instead? For future reference what's the current
standard?


I would verify that you are actually out of inodes before attempting to
fix that problem. df -i should show you your inode usage.


As everyone else has stated ext3 is set to keep 5% of the disk available
for root by default and that is likely what the issue is. I would not
change this as ext3 and most other file systems start having severe
fragmenting issues at 90% usage and up.


kashani

Michael Sullivan schrieb am 02.09.2008 19:05:

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote:

Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB
available?

camille ~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% /
udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev
/dev/sda7 52G 40G 12G 78% /mnt/store
shm 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm
catherine:/backup 44G 34G 8.5G 80% /backup/catherine

you have space left, but the inodes are all used up.

Typical problem for fs like extX.




What fs should I use instead? For future reference what's the current
standard?





First I would verify if the inodes on that particular partition are
really all used by "df -i". I don't think this is an inodes problem as
the partition is quite big and ext3 tends to create to less inodes only
on small partitions. 4Gigabyte of a 78 Gigabyte partition sounds like
the default 5 percent reserved by root on an ext3 filesystem.


Regards,

Daniel

On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > > Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
> > > couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
> > > a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB
> > > available?
> > >
> > > camille ~ # df -h
> > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% /
> > > udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev
> > > /dev/sda7 52G 40G 12G 78% /mnt/store
> > > shm 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm
> > > catherine:/backup 44G 34G 8.5G 80% /backup/catherine
> >
> > you have space left, but the inodes are all used up.
> >
> > Typical problem for fs like extX.
>
> What fs should I use instead? For future reference what's the current
> standard?

there is no 'current standard'. But AFAIR reiserfs does not have this problem.

* Volker Armin Hemmann (volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de) [02.09.08 15:40]:
> On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I
> > couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for
> > a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB
> > available?
> >
> > camille ~ # df -h
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% /
^^

> > udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev
> > /dev/sda7 52G 40G 12G 78% /mnt/store
> > shm 247M 0 247M 0% /dev/shm
> > catherine:/backup 44G 34G 8.5G 80% /backup/catherine
>
> you have space left, but the inodes are all used up.
>
No, I don't think this is an issue with the inodes.

These are the 5% for the superuser, that are missing.

Definetly time to clean up the disk and remove unneeded files.

> Typical problem for fs like extX.
>
But only on small partitions.

>

Sebastian

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