I just got the output below in syslog with a full filesystem. Should I be worried about inconsistent filesystem now, or is that just an overly verbose message about ENOSPC? This is a 4.1.5 kernel. Olaf root@probook:/dist/iso/sles11 # wget -m -np 'http://cdn.novell.com/prot/La2AdJJ4-Ok~/SLED-11-SP4-DVD-i586-GM-DVD1.iso' ... Cannot write to ‘cdn.novell.com/prot/La2AdJJ4-Ok~/SLED-11-SP4-DVD-i586-GM-DVD1.iso’ (No space left on device). root@probook:/dist/iso/sles11 # Aug 13 10:13:35 probook.fritz.box kernel: EXT4-fs (sda5): Delayed block allocation failed for inode 15695873 at logical offset 1942120 with max blocks 221 with error 28 Aug 13 10:13:49 probook.fritz.box kernel: EXT4-fs (sda5): This should not happen!! Data will be lost Aug 13 10:14:06 probook.fritz.box kernel: EXT4-fs (sda5): Total free blocks count 0 Aug 13 10:14:06 probook.fritz.box kernel: EXT4-fs (sda5): Free/Dirty block details Aug 13 10:14:07 probook.fritz.box kernel: EXT4-fs (sda5): free_blocks=0 Aug 13 10:14:07 probook.fritz.box kernel: EXT4-fs (sda5): dirty_blocks=221 Aug 13 10:14:07 probook.fritz.box kernel: EXT4-fs (sda5): Block reservation details Aug 13 10:14:08 probook.fritz.box kernel: EXT4-fs (sda5): i_reserved_data_blocks=221 Filesystem volume name: DBG1S82E_dist Last mounted on: /dist Filesystem UUID: 62c145ba-e2ba-4592-b355-7bba833fc396 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: user_xattr acl Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 33554432 Block count: 268433408 Reserved block count: 26843 Free blocks: 2038421 Free inodes: 32683679 First block: 0 Block size: 2048 Fragment size: 2048 Reserved GDT blocks: 512 Blocks per group: 16384 Fragments per group: 16384 Inodes per group: 2048 Inode blocks per group: 256 Filesystem created: Sun Nov 10 14:01:47 2013 Last mount time: Wed Aug 12 08:49:02 2015 Last write time: Wed Aug 12 08:49:02 2015 Mount count: 285 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Tue Apr 22 09:12:00 2014 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 4960 MB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: 19e1770c-aa3c-4aba-8108-e9a5c8792e09 Journal backup: inode blocks Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke Journal size: 64M Journal length: 32768 Journal sequence: 0x0006a56b Journal start: 10216 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html