Full SD Card

[Ian Lepore]

On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 16:08 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Ian Lepore wrote this message on Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 16:29 -0600:
> > On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 15:27 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > > It is possible that if the machine crashed, that space is lost,
> > > so
> > > booting to single user mode, and running fsck manually may
> > > recover
> > > some space too...
> > 
> > Why would a manual fsck in SU mode be necessary to recover the
> > space? 
> 
> It shouldn't be, but some times hardware misbehaves, etc...  I've had
> a machine that ran SU+J on a CF to IDE adapter, and after some
> crashes,
> a normal fsck would not make the fs clean, and required a manual fsck
> to restore the file system to correct state...  I believe that it was
> an issue w/ the hardware, but never tracked it down exactly...
> 

Oh.  SU+J.  'nuff said.  I think we turned that off by default on arm
images, because people have been reporting trouble with it for years.

-- Ian