Where is my 2G? - MC

[Adrian Visser]

Michael Cohen wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:20:30PM +0930, Mark Newton wrote:
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>>There are millions of Linux systems installed all over the world.
>>At least one of them would suffer from a full filesystem every single
>>day of the week.  If filling up filesystems damages them so badly that
>>you need fsck to recover them, why do you think your story is the -first-
>>we've heard of this?  Why aren't we hearing about this every time someone
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>Hehehe this thread is quite funny. I must say that I was impressed that many
>programs are actually accustumed to filling up the filesystem and handle it
>quite gracefully. We have a mysql db which we were tryng to load data onto - it
>has lots (million and millions of rows) inserted into it and was going to take
>a while... Came back the next day and mysql has stopped, in fact the last
>insert query was just blocked and didnt complete yet (for probably about 6
>hours or so). Turned out the fs was full. Surprisingly (or perhaps not too
>surprisingly) we just deleted some files on the fs and mysql came back to life
>and just went on from where it left off... thats my definition of graceful...
>:-) I kind of expected the query to be aborted but mysql is smart enough to
>just wait it out...
>
>Sorry for the off topicness...
>Michael.
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Hi all
I have been trying to follow this thread from the start.

I have to say that I have never had probs with Ubuntu, Mandrake, Red hat 
and Slackware they have all been quite happy to run with 128Kb - 1024Kb 
free space. In fact I only found out that the disk was full when Firefox 
could not finish a down load that was 65kb small.

 From what I gather from the thread it seems that the destination was 
not set correctly, well we have all done something crazy like that 
before. :-}

The thing that I love about Linux is that you do not feel any 
performance loss when the disk is starting to get close to full. (eg
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3              73G   73G   44M 100% /
/dev/sdb1              99M   14M   80M  15% /boot
and the box is still running like she did the day I first installed here 
almost two years ago. :-}

Ad