On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 06:56:58PM -0500, Nick Semenkovich wrote: > A few days ago, a batch process I was running accidentally exhausted > 100% of my partition's storage. One directory on this partition is > encrypted with dm-crypt. Aem, dm-crypt does not support directory encryption. You must have a dm-crypt'ed partition or file mounted on that directory. > After killing the process, I tried to free up some space by deleting > files from the encrypted directory. Strangely, after RM-ing ~4 GB of > files, I noticed that "df -h" showed that there wasn't any additional > free space. See above. You deleted from the wrong partition. > df's "Used" column value was decreasing, but the "Avail" column wasn't > increasing. Are you sure? That should not happen. Unless you read "used" for the encrypted device and "avail" for the non-encrypted device. > When I RM-ed files outside of the encrypted directory (but on the same > partition), "df -h" behaved normally (with "Used" decreasing as > "Avail" increased). See above. > dmesg had many messages of the type: > [ 140.267890] ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower > page; rc = [-28] > [ 140.267894] ecryptfs_write_end: Error encrypting page (upper index > [0x0000000000000000]) I have no idea what these mean, but they are likely unrelated to your other issue. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
