Can't delete any files on my filled up ZFS pool
Thomas Vogt
freebsdlists at bsdunix.ch
Mon Jan 21 15:29:35 PST 2008
Hello
Bill wrote:
> Do you have snapshots on the pool? What is the output from 'zfs list'?
> It's possible when you have a snapshot on tank that the delete causes a
> copy-on-write for the snapshot that then doesn't have enough space.
I don't use snapshots.
zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
tank 104G 5.70G 4.11G /tank
tank/wav 99.5G 5.70G 99.5G /wav
Cheers,
Thomas
> Thomas Vogt wrote:
>> Hello Julian
>>
>> Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>>> Thomas Vogt wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I need help. My ZFS sytem is filled up. I can't delete any files.
>>>>
>>>> root at bert:/tank# rm input.wav
>>>> rm: input.wav: No space left on device
>>>
>>> I know nothing about ZFS :-) (Well nearly, just reading the ZFS pain
>>> on @freebsd lists is enough to scare me off for now ;-) ) But if I
>>> was stuck on this, with no ZFS experts to quickly ask, I'd guess & try:
>>>
>>> It needs more space for another Inode, or extended directory
>>> entry, cos its maybe going to create another inode in a
>>> backup/ deleted entity first, so either:
>>>
>>> A)
>>> Maybe su ; rm input.wav # if the concept of extra space still
>>> exists
>>> # per "tunefs -m" for root as per UFS etc.
>>
>> I filled it as root. So it does not work
>>
>>> Or B)
>>> Perhaps more likely:
>>> truncate existing inode to create some space
>>> before deleting it:
>>> cat /dev/null > input.wav ; rm input.wav
>>
>> Nice. B) works fine. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>> Presumably if you filled it as root, B might still empty it.
>>>
>>> There will doubtless be better ZFS answers, but could be interesting
>>> to hear if either of above could work.
>>
>> I hope there will be a "ZFS" answer :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
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