Re: Erroneous message that there is no space left on a device

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On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 09:09, Margaret_Doll wrote:
> I am running RedHat 9.0, up to kernel-2.4.20-20.9 on two backup systems
> 
> I am running an older version of Arkeia on both of the backup systems 
> to backup the unix computers in the departments.  On one system the 
> backup works fine.  On the other I can get most of the systems backed 
> up, but
> the backup completes unsuccessfully because  of error #5.  Error 5 is
> 
> 			The tape is full and there are no more tapes, but I have three tapes 
> untouched when the
> 				backup completes.
> 			The backup has been aborted by a user, but I did not stop the process
> 			The flow process has been killed.  The program did stop running and 
> unmounted the
> 				tapes correctly.
> 
> I am noticing that the system thinks that the disk partition on which 
> the backup process resides is full.
> 
> df /knox
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb3             12547184   4452500   7457308  38% /knox
> 
> touch /knox/temp
> touch:  creating `/knox/temp':  No space left on device
> 
> I orginnally had this as a ext3 file system and was seeing the problem 
> above.  I put uninstalled the arkeia software, put a new ext2 
> filesystem on partition, and reinstalled the arkeia software.  Ran the 
> backup again.  Same
> errors.
> 
> I know that the device is good; it is a brand new disk.  I have a 
> larger partition on the same disk that
> is working well.
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1             25600720   7226344  17073916  30% /home/httpd
> 
> I have no problem creating files on this partition.
> 
> I have unmounted the ext2 /knox directory and fsck'd it.  fsck found no 
> problems.
> 
> Any ideas has to what is happening?
> 

Is this the last partition on the disk?  if so, perhaps you could try
making it an extended partition instead?

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