I brought this up around noon today on IRC, but I guess everyone was out to lunch =). I've recently formatted my shiny new SATA drive as ReiserFS, to try out a few new filesystems out. Since it was a 200GB drive, and I plan to use it mostly for storing large files, I thought it might be a bit faster if I used a larger block size, I used 4096 (although I'm not sure what the default is, at the time I assumed it was 1024). If you're interested in specific hardware details, I've attached the output from the program lshw. Beware that it isn't entirely accurate; one part I've noticed that's wrong is the socket type on my CPU.
Anyways, my problem and reason for posting this is that I can't seem to store more than about 4 gigs on the drive. I can't create or move files to the drive. Example:
jldugger@jldugger:~ $ mv lshw /mnt/reiser/ mv: writing `/mnt/reiser/lshw': No space left on device
Some extra diagnostic information: jldugger@jldugger:~ $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 9410184 7957780 974388 90% / tmpfs 518296 0 518296 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda 195355016 4126812 191228204 3% /mnt/reiser
jldugger@jldugger:~ $ du -sh /mnt/reiser 4.0G /mnt/reiser So, any ideas? One person suggested that I might be out of inodes, but it turns out that the standard tool didn't work (it listed all zeroes for total, used and free inodes on reiserfs).
Justin Dugger
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Justin Dugger wrote:
| I brought this up around noon today on IRC, but I guess everyone was | out to lunch =). I've recently formatted my shiny new SATA drive as | ReiserFS, to try out a few new filesystems out. Since it was a 200GB | drive, and I plan to use it mostly for storing large files, I thought | it might be a bit faster if I used a larger block size, I used 4096 | (although I'm not sure what the default is, at the time I assumed it | was 1024). If you're interested in specific hardware details, I've | attached the output from the program lshw. Beware that it isn't | entirely accurate; one part I've noticed that's wrong is the socket | type on my CPU. | | Anyways, my problem and reason for posting this is that I can't seem | to store more than about 4 gigs on the drive. I can't create or move | files to the drive. Example: | | jldugger@jldugger:~ $ mv lshw /mnt/reiser/ | mv: writing `/mnt/reiser/lshw': No space left on device | | Some extra diagnostic information: | jldugger@jldugger:~ $ df | Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on | /dev/hda1 9410184 7957780 974388 90% / | tmpfs 518296 0 518296 0% /dev/shm | /dev/sda 195355016 4126812 191228204 3% /mnt/reiser | | jldugger@jldugger:~ $ du -sh /mnt/reiser | 4.0G /mnt/reiser | So, any ideas?
I suggest using jfs.
If you're wondering what your problem with reiser is:
- - Why did you format /dev/sda instead of partitioning the drive?
- - Exactly what format command did you use? Are you sure you didn't make a 4G reiser fs on a 200G 'partition' (/dev/sda)?
- -- Charles Steinkuehler charles@steinkuehler.net
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:23 -0500, Justin Dugger wrote:
I brought this up around noon today on IRC, but I guess everyone was out to lunch =). I've recently formatted my shiny new SATA drive as ReiserFS, to try out a few new filesystems out. Since it was a 200GB drive, and I plan to use it mostly for storing large files, I thought it might be a bit faster if I used a larger block size, I used 4096 (although I'm not sure what the default is, at the time I assumed it was 1024). If you're interested in specific hardware details, I've attached the output from the program lshw. Beware that it isn't entirely accurate; one part I've noticed that's wrong is the socket type on my CPU.
Anyways, my problem and reason for posting this is that I can't seem to store more than about 4 gigs on the drive. I can't create or move files to the drive. Example:
fdisk /dev/sda
What is the fs type and size of partition. From the looks of it, you prolly don't have a linux partition.
My backup server has 4 200g sata drives (3ware raid controller), and ReiserFS, never an issue with it. We use ReiserFS for all our servers, company and customer.
-Bill
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