From: "news.gmane.org" Subject: Re: Wrong calculation of space remaining on a 32 bit system. Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:46:25 +0100 Message-ID: <490E1FB1.8020100@tvcablenet.be> References: <490DBBD9.9040300@tvcablenet.be> <20081102204352.GJ8134@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from mirapoint7.brutele.be ([212.68.199.151]:7800 "EHLO mirapoint7.brutele.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754171AbYKBVqt (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:46:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081102204352.GJ8134@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Theodore Tso a =E9crit : > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 03:40:25PM +0100, Fran=E7ois Valenduc wrote: >> I have already filed a bug report (see >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D11840) but unfortunatel= y, >> nobody seems to care about it. >=20 > Hi, >=20 > Sorry no one responded, but while the Bugzilla system is great > for tracking bugs, it's not a good place to call attention to a bug. > In fact, I'm not sure that fs_ext4@kernel-bugs.osdl.org forwards > anywhere sane (I'm checking up on that, though). In general it's a > good idea by sending e-mail to either linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org or > (preferred) linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org. >=20 > From your description, the ext4 filesystem thought there was > some kind of on-disk corruption or other problem with your filesystem= , > and remounted it read-only. That's consistent with your report of th= e > messages in the syslog of: >=20 > ext4_da_writepages: jbd2_start: 1024 pages, ino 40898; err -30 >=20 > There should have been something in your logs *before* all of the err > -30 complaints, however. Was this your root filesystem, or do you > have this saved in logfile in /var/log? If so, can you search back > for something that occurs before all of the ext4_da_writepages error > messages? >=20 > - Ted Thanks for your reply. In fact, the errors I mentionned don't occur anymore. But the problem o= f the diskspace remains. I never managed until now to use more than one third of a partition on a 32 bit system. After that, I always get a message saying that the partition is full, which can't be true. =46ran=E7ois -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html