Re: ext3: 100% full; after moving 3GB still full
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 17:52, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> * 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.
????
He can because he is able to. Quotas would "help".
Or are you thinking that there's a bug in the Java program?
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