[OpenAFS] Maximum size /vicepX partition

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:59:00 +0100


On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Hans-Werner Paulsen wrote:
> Hello,
> the size of a /vicepX partition on an OpenAFS-1.4.0 fileserver seems
> to be limited to 4TByte.
> I can create volumes on this fileserver/partition, but when I try to
> create a file on this volume I get:
> $ touch xxx
> touch: creating `xxx': No space left on device
> The fileserver writes the following lines to the log file:
> Tue Jan 24 12:40:10 2006 File Server started Tue Jan 24 12:40:10 2006
> Tue Jan 24 12:42:53 2006 Partition /vicepd that contains volume  
> 536920876 is full
> ....
> Tue Jan 24 12:44:41 2006 Shutting down file server at Tue Jan 24  
> 12:44:41 2006
> Tue Jan 24 12:44:41 2006 Partition /vicepd: -5451620 available 1K  
> blocks (minfree=0), Tue Jan 24 12:44:41 2006 overallocated by  
> 10008912 blocks
> ...

Are you sure, it's the fileserver and not your partitions filesystem  
that is limited?

Can you write data to the partition directly on the fileserver?
I mean writing directly on the filesystem of the fileserver (in this  
case /vicepd).

Horst