Re: Any known ext2 FS problems in 2.4.7?

[Andreas Dilger]

David Ford writes:
> Ok, the assumed guilty party that just at 4.5gigs flat tonight was the 
> rsync for the kernel mirror.
> 
> Here are the facts.
> a) lsof didn't report any large files opened by rsync
> b) lsof currently reports about 80k in deleted files
> c) the directory where rsync runs from, the destination directory of the 
> mirror, both report expected sizes, the mirror is a little over 9 gigs 
> like it should be, the script directory is tiny.
> e) dmesg shows nothing
> f) du of the partitions shows the expected usage of about 13gigs.
> 
> 4.5gigs just disappeared into nothingness.  I can't find it with any 
> tools.  I have to shut this machine down to single user mode and run 
> e2fsck to recover the space.

Could you try (a) running with quotas disabled to see if it fixes the
problem, or (b) running an -ac kernel which has changes to the quota
code (along with new quota tools, from sourceforge, I believe).

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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