[H-GEN] Puzzled by 'disk full' message

[Alex Delaforce]

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Thanks for the info Jason,
I have had to reinstall mdk9.1 So I will be having another go at
mounting /var/CDs being mindful of what you said.

Alex Delaforce
  Director of Technology 
    Ormiston College
      [**alextdel at lithoptix.com**]
        [**dir.tech at ormiston.qld.edu.au**]

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> From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom at caliburn.humbug.org.au] On 
> Behalf Of Jason Parker-Burlingham
> Sent: Friday, 1 August 2003 5:19 AM
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> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Puzzled by 'disk full' message
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> "Alex Delaforce" <alextdel at lithoptix.com> writes:
> 
> > When copying the CDs to a partition on hdc (second IDE drive) I 
> > mounted a 12 G partition as /var/CDs (only a very small 
> swap partition 
> > on hdc apart from this).
> 
> Please confirm if I have this correct; you have a root 
> partition, and one other partition mounted on /var/CDs, which 
> is about 12GB.  How big is the root partition?
> 
> > Inside /var/CDs I made new directories with names like 
> 'Server Install 
> > CD1' then copied the CD from '/mnt/cdrom' to the '/var/CDs/Server 
> > Install CD1' directory as root. When I got to the 7th CD I was 
> > informed that the disk is full! (~700M x 7 = ~4.9 Gig )
> 
> I wonder if you really had /var/CDs correctly mounted, and 
> ran the commands to make the copies correctly.  Please show 
> me the output of the command
> 
>     $ mount
> 
> on your system (the dollar sign is just to indicate you 
> should run that as a normal user and not root; a pound sign 
> is used to indicate the converse).
> 
> > The /var/CDs partition is 12 Gig but looking at the 
> /var/CDs partition 
> > it says its full at 100% usage of '/:'with a report of 5.8 Gig 
> > (filesystem overheads?, I don't know)
> 
> > Question 1 - What happened to the other 5 or so Gig?
> 
> It's hard to say for sure but it sounds like you may have 
> copied the CDs onto the root partition by mistake.  I'm led 
> to this conclusion because you say some program (you don't 
> say which) reported "100% usage of `/:'".
> 
> This would happen if you'd forgotten to mount the partition 
> on the second IDE drive (the output from mount will tell us 
> if that's the case).
> 
> My next guess---and this is a real shot in the dark---is that 
> perhaps you've run out of inodes.  I think this is pretty 
> unlikely but if you can paste the output of the commands
> 
>     $ df -Tk
>     $ df -i
> 
> Then I can say more for certain.
> 
> > Question 2 - How can I change the maximum size of /var/CDs 
> within the 
> > partition I have already made so I can finish the job of 
> copying the 
> > Cds to my second hdd?.
> 
> This is actually quite a complicated operation; you would 
> need to free up some space immediately after the end of the 
> existing partition, usually by deleting the filesystem there 
> (if there is one), edit the partition table to extend the 
> existing partition holding /var/CDs into that space, and then 
> run mkfs(8) to grow that filesystem before checking it and 
> then mounting it again.
> 
> All of this is fraught with danger and I would never ever 
> attempt it for the sake of data that I have on CDs anyway.
> 
> The good news is that you probably don't need to do anything 
> of the sort.
> 
> > This is probably based on another piece of 'really basic' 
> info I have 
> > yet to grasp but I would appreciate being pushed ot kicked in the 
> > right direction.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> jason
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