[Ocfs-users] ocfs doesn't free space?

[Wim Coekaerts]

unfortuantely the space on disk needs to be contiguous when creating
datafiles.

so you should try to create a smaller file adn then grow it. 

extfinder I think is shipped as a tool that shows the chunksizes on disk
available

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:14:00PM +0200, Andreas Piesk wrote:
> 
> an ocfs-volume was nearly full (only 800MB free). i deleted some 
> datafiles to free space:
> 
> $ df -h .
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdp1              10G  5.3G  4.8G  53% /db/DPS
> 
> so there are more than 4GB available.
> 
> $ sqlplus /nolog
> 
> SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Sep 1 12:57:48 2004
> 
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
> SQL> connect / as sysdba;
> Connected.
> SQL> create tablespace data_dp
>   datafile '/db/DPS/tablespaces/dp/data01.dbf'
>     size 999m autoextend on
>   segment space management auto;
> create tablespace data_dp
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-01119: error in creating database file 
> '/db/DPS/tablespaces/dp/data01.dbf'
> ORA-27044: unable to write the header block of file
> Linux Error: 28: No space left on device
> Additional information: 3
> 
> 
> what could be the reason for this error? looks like ocfs doesn't free 
> the space from the deleted files. ocfs is mounted on 1 node only.
> 
> # fsck.ocfs -n /dev/sdp1
> fsck.ocfs 1.1.2-PROD1 Fri Apr  2 14:04:10 PST 2004 (build 
> 2df841d19c031db220f8cfb73439339d)
> /dev/sdp1: clean, 282 objects, 5344/10234 blocks
> 
> what are these 282 objects? the volume contains only 26 dirs/files:
> 
> # debugocfs -l /dev/sdp1
> debugocfs 1.1.2-PROD1 Fri Apr  2 14:04:05 PST 2004 (build 
> fcb0206676afe0fcac47a99c90de0e7b)
> filelisting:
>         File1 = /tablespaces/
>         File2 = /tablespaces/vbv/
>         File3 = /tablespaces/undo2_01.dbf
>         File4 = /tablespaces/undo1_01.dbf
>         File5 = /tablespaces/tools01.dbf
>         File6 = /tablespaces/temp01.dbf
>         File7 = /tablespaces/system01.dbf
>         File8 = /tablespaces/dp/
>         File9 = /tablespaces/dp/idx01.dbf
>         File10 = /tablespaces/abo/
>         File11 = /spfileDPS.ora
>         File12 = /redologs2/
>         File13 = /redologs2/log6a.rdo
>         File14 = /redologs2/log5a.rdo
>         File15 = /redologs2/log4a.rdo
>         File16 = /redologs2/archive/
>         File17 = /redologs1/
>         File18 = /redologs1/log3a.rdo
>         File19 = /redologs1/log2a.rdo
>         File20 = /redologs1/log1a.rdo
>         File21 = /redologs1/archive/
>         File22 = /orapwDPS
>         File23 = /mirror/
>         File24 = /control02a.ctl
>         File25 = /control01a.ctl
>         File26 = /backup/
> 
> 
> Any advices?
> 
> 
> best,
> 
> -ap
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Piesk
> Systemadministration E-/M-Commerce
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> V?B-ZVD
> Bank f?r Zahlungsverkehrsdienstleistungen GmbH
> Godesberger Allee 88
> 
> 53175 Bonn
> 
> Tel.: +49 (0) 228 9377-535
> Fax:  +49 (0) 228 9377-596
> E-Mail: andreas.piesk at voeb-zvd.de
> Internet: http://www.voeb-zvd.de
> _______________________________________________
> Ocfs-users mailing list
> Ocfs-users at oss.oracle.com
> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs-users