Good morning, what a way to start a day.
My Raq3i is telling me / is full - but I think something I did is causing
the message. I have a 2nd drive in the machine and one per week I have
been using dd to copy drive to drive. Here are the commands I've been using:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/hdb3
dd if=/dev/hda4 of=/dev/hdb4
So instead of typing them in one at a time, I created a small text file
with the 4 commands in it, ftp'd this file to my RAQ and ran it from root.
After the 1st line completed, the last 3 lines all failed saying the
system was out of disk space, so I just figured it didn't like the way I
made my batch file and I typed in the lines one at a time. That seemed to
be going just fine but then I got in an ADMIN email saying / was out of space.
I did a df and sure enough, it shows it is out of space. I deleted about
18meg of files and it still says out of space. Active monitor was flashing
when I went into the GUI, DISK was red, but when I went into DISK, both
show as green, with / saying it has 179 meg free, but df still says 0.
Now what I found is that I have a file created today called /dev/hdb1
owned by root that is 258meg ... but all the other files are very tiny,
ie: /dev/hdb2. The other item of interest is the permission on the good
entries start with a b (lower case b) and the bad file is - (hyphen). I
tried to just delete the file and get File Not Found.
SO - I think I may have found the answer to why it got created, it
probably has an invisible character of some kind in the name, probably a
typo of some kind in my batch file ... and I don't think I can just rm
hdb* as I have hdb10 and other files, and I don't know where the invisible
character might be, like right after the h.
***** Is there a way to see if a file name has an invisible character in
it? ******
If I can delete this file, the rest of this message becomes irrelevant I
would believe.
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I did mount on my hdb1 (backup drive) and df on that looked fine with
available: 253042 66% in use, but I'd expect that.
Now I went to unmount my backup drive - maybe I don't remember my unmount
command, I thought it was either umount mnt or umount /mnt - so I tried
both, and what I get back is:
error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device
So I did an ls -l on that file as get:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 09:13 /etc/mtab.tmp
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This is from the GUI:
Total Space Free Space %
Used
OS and Programs 920.0 MB 179.7 MB 80.5
Virtual Sites 11643.1 MB 9122.6 MB 21.6
home 10917.1 MB 8875.5 MB 18.7
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So, what do I do? Why does the GUI think I have space and df does not? Any
clues on how to delete this 258meg file that doesn't seem to want to go away?
Do I put my backup drive in as primary (use my backup)???
You all know how much assistance is greatly appreciated as I am really
confused.
Thanks!!
Jale
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