Subject: Re: Raid out of space?
To: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
From: None <wojtek@wojtek.from.pl>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/06/2001 11:14:22
> track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> d: 120103200 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
> 119149)
> e: 120101877 63 RAID # (Cyl. 0*-
> 119148*)
>
>
> 5 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> d: 120103200 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
> 119149)
> e: 120103200 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 -
> 119149)
>
>
>
> I notice an inconsistency here, is this the cause of the problem? What
> needs to be done to correct it? Will we lose raid?
>
>
no but it's big inconsistency and problem to start raid partition from
offset 0 as raid disklabels could overwrite disk's disklabels.
> Also found that I can create a file, like:
>
> sycamore# dd if=/dev/zero of=testing bs=1024
>
> /incoming: write failed, file system is full
> dd: testing: No space left on device
> 42825+0 records in
> 42824+0 records out
> 43851776 bytes transferred in 45 secs (974483 bytes/sec)
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 43851776 Feb 6 11:54 testing
>
>
> Leaving the file there, I can then go create a second file:
>
> sycamore# dd if=/dev/zero of=testing2 bs=1024
>
> /incoming: write failed, file system is full
> dd: testing2: No space left on device
> 42769+0 records in
> 42768+0 records out
> 43794432 bytes transferred in 38 secs (1152485 bytes/sec)
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 43851776 Feb 6 11:54 testing
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 43794432 Feb 6 11:55 testing2
>
> and slowly fill up the system?
try fsck :)