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disk full message when there is space

Quoc-Hoang Nguyen — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:44:51 GMT

Someone can help me about this message

vxfs: mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/vg00/lvol4 file system full (1 block extent)
.Pass phrase appears good. .
Disk full.

when I want to uncrypt a pgp file.
But, in my system, this volume has place
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol4 524288 74216 424210 15% /tmp

and with list directory,

drwxrwxrwx 14 bin bin 234496 Apr 4 14:32 tmp

Note that the size of my encrypted file is 143663356 bytes

Re: disk full message when there is space

Vincenzo Restuccia — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:57:15 GMT

You have apllications which they write temporary in /tmp ?

Re: disk full message when there is space

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:58:54 GMT

It appears that when it is trying to de-crypt the file that you are running out of space. Since it cannot successfully de-crypt the file, it will error out and you will have space show available. If it were successful in decrypting, you would have 2 copies of the file, the encrypted and the decrypted version.

Free up some space, or go to a larger filesystem and you will be successful.

Re: disk full message when there is space

John Bolene — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:15:12 GMT

The encrypted file must not be in /tmp since only 74 meg is used and it is 144 meg is size.

The unencrypt may be putting temp files in /tmp but I would find it hard to believe that they would take so much room as to use the rest of the space available in /tmp.

While you are doing the unencrypt, can you in another window do bdf's to see if /tmp is getting lower and then gets larger?

Re: disk full message when there is space

Mona Buck — Thu, 05 Apr 2001 12:16:32 GMT

do a bdf -i to check your inodes. I've had that before....