From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:17:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:17:11 -0400 Received: from h24-64-71-161.cg.shawcable.net ([24.64.71.161]:37885 "EHLO lynx.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:17:04 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200108042332.f74NW1N01658@lynx.adilger.int> Subject: Re: Any known ext2 FS problems in 2.4.7? To: david@blue-labs.org (David Ford) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:32:01 -0600 (MDT) Cc: adilger@turbolinux.com (Andreas Dilger), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel), unlisted-recipients:;;;;@fsa.enel.ucalgary.ca;;; (no To-header on input) In-Reply-To: <3B6BA0B8.1080704@blue-labs.org> from "David Ford" at Aug 04, 2001 03:14:00 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Ford writes: > Ok, the assumed guilty party that just at 4.5gigs flat tonight was the > rsync for the kernel mirror. > > Here are the facts. > a) lsof didn't report any large files opened by rsync > b) lsof currently reports about 80k in deleted files > c) the directory where rsync runs from, the destination directory of the > mirror, both report expected sizes, the mirror is a little over 9 gigs > like it should be, the script directory is tiny. > e) dmesg shows nothing > f) du of the partitions shows the expected usage of about 13gigs. > > 4.5gigs just disappeared into nothingness. I can't find it with any > tools. I have to shut this machine down to single user mode and run > e2fsck to recover the space. Could you try (a) running with quotas disabled to see if it fixes the problem, or (b) running an -ac kernel which has changes to the quota code (along with new quota tools, from sourceforge, I believe). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/