Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262104AbVD1P7v (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262109AbVD1P7v (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:59:51 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.44]:37517 "EHLO ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262104AbVD1P7q (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:59:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4270FA5B.5060609@davyandbeth.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:59:39 -0500 From: Davy Durham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: ext3 issue.. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2352 Lines: 69 Greetings, I'm having an issues with ext3. For about 3 months the /home partition has had low-to-medium use/activity.. adding files, nightly log rotations, some mysql dbs coming and going at a slow pace.. Well, yesterday after I had migrated everything off of it (no files in /home anymore) the df output looked like this: # uptime 10:35:54 up 96 days, 14:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 2.0G 483M 1.4G 26% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 33G -64Z 31G 101% /home I did notice that if I created a file (cat /dev/zero >/home/foo) of significant size that I could make it look normal again.. So I figure it's an underflow in some count. Crazy huh? Well, I unmounted /home and did an fsck -f on the partition and remounted it. Then everything looked okay. --- Well today on a different server (that I have not cleaned off yet) that has been up and running for 6 months is saying the same thing: # uptime 10:39:16 up 181 days, 2:42, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 2.0G 483M 1.4G 26% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 33G -64Z 31G 101% /home Now, this server is still in production. I could bring it down for a brief time to fsck or reboot it, but I'd be afraid to. du -h /home shows that really only 268M is used. If I create a large file (176M) in /home it then don't underflow on the df, but is still incorrect. Is this a known issue with ext3? Or ext2? Anything I should or should not do about it? Thanks, Davy BTW- df -k looks like # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 2054064 493660 1454380 26% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 33690964 -73786976294838186940 31971456 101% /home - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/