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Re: [PATCH 6/6] tests: avoid spurious parallel failure due to temporary


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] tests: avoid spurious parallel failure due to temporary disk full
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:00:43 +0100
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On 04/04/11 06:13, Jim Meyering wrote:
> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
> 
> Running the new fiemap-empty test uses 600MB of disk space via
> fallocate, and in so doing caused failure in unrelated tests that
> were running in parallel on a small file system.  Rather than
> simply running fallocate (which allocates the space, inducing
> disk full when it fails), skip the test if there is less than
> 800MB of free space, as computed via stat and awk.

Oops sorry.
Maybe worth noting is that stat works at a lower level,
and doesn't honor quotas etc, whereas df would be more
accurate, and would do the multiplication internally.

df -B1 -P . | tail -n1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f4

cheers,
Pádraig.



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