Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752677AbZAaKOM (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:14:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751563AbZAaKN5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:13:57 -0500 Received: from sov-mail-b0014.gradwell.net ([193.84.87.38]:53822 "EHLO sov-mail-b0014.gradwell.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751290AbZAaKN4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:13:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:05:16 +0000 From: Alex Buell To: Theodore Tso Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27 & ext4 strangeness Message-ID: <20090131100516.01adc593@lithium.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20090131000917.GB27950@mit.edu> References: <20090130194702.5a2ca774@lithium.local.net> <20090131000917.GB27950@mit.edu> Organization: One tortoiseshell cat, very high maintenance X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: "wUuhsy:X)M;>-dA\j"&y@*\$91]iX10Iv1WG_oNbGYpo,eqc06O?"VSeRTx]xM\LiITUh01z}<|GF/4Gzz(MAU~;p4AS,%TB69M:vB-9+i'#W7$UQCW&UP#zt{VdLlzEiw8k~jL< Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1467 Lines: 35 On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:09:17 -0500, I waved a wand and this message magically appears in front of Theodore Tso: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 07:47:02PM +0000, Alex Buell wrote: > > > > As this has happened three times in the last 24 hours, I thought I'd > > report this. Whenever my laptop locks up, I have to powercycle. > > After rebooting, and fsck.ext4 reports a clean filesystem, often I > > get a 'no space on device' error even though I have plenty of disk > > space left. Another reboot with a forced fsck.ext4 cures this, > > every time. This only happens with ext4 filesystems used as the > > root filesystem. > > If you can reproduce this, can you send me the output of "df /; df -i > /; dumpe2fs /dev/XXX" (where XXX is your root device) before you > reboot and force an fsck? And then can you send me the output of "df > / ; df -i /; dumpe2fs /dev/XXX" after the 2nd reboot and forced fsck. > I've never seen anything like this, so I don't know what to make of > it. It's happened again this morning before your e-mail arrived. I'm now sure I can reproduce it every time the laptop locks up. The next time it happens I'll do as you request. Regards Alex -- http://www.munted.org.uk Fearsome grindings. -- 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/