[OpenAFS] Full disk woes

[Steve Devine]

Hartmut Reuter wrote:
> Steve Devine wrote:
>> Hartmut Reuter wrote:
>>
>>> Steve Devine wrote:
>>>
>>>> I committed the cardinal sin of letting a server partition fill up.
>>>> I have tried vos remove and vos zap .. I can't get rid of any
>>>> vols.Volume management fails on this machine.
>>>> Its the old style (non namei) fileserver. It doesn't seem like I can
>>>> just "rm the V#####.vol" can I?
>>>> Any help?
>>>>
>>>
>>> To remove the small V#####.vol files doesn't help, they are really
>>> only 76 bytes long.
>>>
>>> What happens if you do a "vos remove" or a "vos zap"?
>>
>> both commands fail. Even when I use force.
>
>
> What says the VolserLog?
>
>
>>
>>> Go the volumes away and the free space seems as low as before?
>>>
>>> This can happen, if you only removed readonly and backup volumes which
>>> typically can free only the space used by their metadata while the
>>> space used by their files and directories is shared between them and
>>> the RW volume. But, of course, you don't want to remove your
>>> RW-volumes.
>>> May be, if you have removed all RO- and BK- volumes you have enough
>>> free space for the temporary volume being created when you try to move
>>> your smallest RW-volume to another partition/server.
>>>
>>> There is also a "-live" option for the vos move command which should
>>> doe the move without creating a clone. I suppose it has been written
>>> for such cases.
>>>
>>> Good luck,
>>> Hartmut
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Lot of lines like this ..
Fri Jul  6 10:05:18 2007 trans 3811071 on volume 1938590434 is older
than 29730 seconds
Fri Jul  6 10:05:48 2007 trans 3811072 on volume 1937192577 is older
than 28530 seconds
Fri Jul  6 10:05:48 2007 trans 3811071 on volume 1938590434 is older
than 29760 seconds
Fri Jul  6 10:06:18 2007 trans 3811072 on volume 1937192577 is older
than 28560 seconds
Fri Jul  6 10:06:18 2007 trans 3811071 on volume 1938590434 is older
than 29790

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Steve Devine
Network Storage and Printing
Academic Computing & Network Services
Michigan State University

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