Re: ext3: 100% full; after moving 3GB still full
* Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> [2003-04-25 00:49]:
> on one of my server machines, a normal user process (Java) could fill
> up the whole partition /home (mounted from a separated partition).
>
> After moving about 3GB stored in various files to a larger partition,
> the target partition got the 3GB, however, the /home partition was not
> "freed" by the same amount of space:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5 19G 18G 73M 100% /home
>
> Does anyone know how to taggle this problem? Can I re-create the
> journal, run an e2fsck over the partition to get rid of the problem?
>
The problem of getting back could be solved: a process was still
holding an open fd on a file with about 2.9GB. However, the problem
why a user can fill up the whole partition scares me.
wbr,
Lukas
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