[Ocfs2-users] Missing over 100GB of disk space

Srinivas Eeda srinivas.eeda at oracle.com
Tue Jan 16 13:06:33 PST 2007


yes, you need to re-format :(

Colin.Farley at ecarecenters.com wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  So we would need a 4k block size and 4k cluster size
> since some of these files are rather small.  I guess there is no way to
> change this without formatting and starting again?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Colin Farley
> Network Administrator
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> Colin,
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> space for files are allocated in cluster units. A 64k block is allocated
> even if the file is few bytes. You might want to consider lower cluster
> size if the file are small.
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> thanks,
> --Srini
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> Colin.Farley at ecarecenters.com wrote:
>   
>> We have a 300GB ocfs2 filesystem shared by two unbreakable linux 2.0
>>     
> nodes.
>   
>> The filesystem is to be used to store FTP data for a Peoplesoft CRM
>> application.  Data is being rared up on the current production windows
>>     
> FTP
>   
>> server then FTPed over to the new server and unrared.  After unrared the
>> source rar file is deleted.  There is a large amount of files in a few
>> directories, some directories have near 2 million files.  Problem is that
>> we have run out of space early.  "df -h" reports 18GB free when unrar
>> reports that there is no space left on the disk.  Also, doing a "du -hc
>>     
> ."
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>> reports that there is only 159GB used.
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>> Anyone have any ideas on how to proceed with this?  I've tried unmounting
>> the filesystem and running "fsck.ocfs2 -f /dev/sdb".  Filesystem was
>> formatted with 4k blocks 64k cluster size.
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>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Colin Farley
>> Network Administrator
>> E-Care Contact Center Services
>> Phone:(204) 940-6244
>> Fax:(204) 940-7394
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