[ale] news disk full errors

[nomad]

Zot O'Connor wrote:
> 
> Filesystem  1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sda2   232989     171623     49334    78%      /
> /dev/sda3   653495      79578    536541   13%     /usr/lib/news
> /dev/sdb1   3976015        15   3763368    0%     /var/spool/news
>                      ^^     ^^^  ^^^
> 
> A file system on a 1.2.8 Slackware system seems to be bad.  It is
> the news server (Surprise huh?) and has gone to lunch.  I am
> curious as to the above df output since it lists plenty avaiable,
> but no capacity?
> 
> If I run the news server it locks and rebbots the machine with no
> error maessages printed to the logs.
> 
> Fsck says everything is hunky dory
> 
> DU agrees with Avaiable
> 
> Do I reformat the drive?  Do I run a different utility like fsck?
> Do I deep six the 4 gig paper weight.
> 
> Other wierd things are going on with the system, icluding nmbd
> and smbd disappearing (without a trace) from /usr/sbin about the
> same time as the news server crash.
> 
> Any ideas or pointer before I get seep into this one would be
> appreciated.  I am not super familar with news servers at full
> scale like this.
> 

You are probably out of Inodes... do a "df -ik" to show inode usage.
To fix this you will need to re-format the partition.  Look at the man
page for mkfs to find out how to set the number of inodes.  You can only
put as many files on a filesystem as you have inodes.  With a news
server you have "alot" of small files... You run out of inodes.

Rob

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Robert L. Harris
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