Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>

[Vitaly V. Ch]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Vitaly,
>
> I am curious to know how the gunzip will check for free space available?

gunzip no not check free space at all. when solaris found out of space
they report situation for gunzip.

\\wbr Vitaly Chernookiy

>
> Below is the truss command output run on gunzip,
>
> read(3, "D2B0C3B9 d zF894CBB4BE99".., 32768)    = 32768
> write(4, " L A S S = " P a r a g r".., 32768)   = 32768
> write(4, " O M C - R A N / 3 1 / h".., 32768)   = 32768
> write(4, " D   V A L I G N = " t o".., 32768)   = 32768
> write(4, " a p h B o d y " > < E M".., 32768)   = 32768
> write(4, " >   & n b s p ; < / T D".., 32768)   = 32768
> write(4, " " t o p " >   & n b s p".., 32768)   = 32768
> write(4, "   i s   5 E S S   D C S".., 32768)   = 32768
> write(4, " P   C L A S S = " C o p".., 32768)   Err#28 ENOSPC
> fstat64(2, 0xFFBFE600)                          = 0
>
> write(2, "\n", 1)                               = 1
> gunzipwrite(2, " g u n z i p", 6)                       = 6
> : write(2, " :  ", 2)                           = 2
> tarname.tarwrite(2, : write(2, " :  ", 2)                            = 2
> No space left on devicewrite(2, " N o   s p a c e   l e f".., 23)
> = 23
>
> write(2, "\n", 1)                               = 1
> close(4)                                        = 0
> unlink("tarname.tar")        = 0
> mmap(0x00000000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0) = 0xFF380000
> munmap(0xFF380000, 8192)                        = 0
> _exit(1)
>
> Thanks,
> Prabha
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vitaly V. Ch [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:16 PM
> To: Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Vitaly,
>>
>> My machine has solaris 10 installed , looks like tune2fs is not
>> supported...:(
>>
>> Any idea what are the equivavent commands I can use to check the free
>> space on solaris 10?
> Sorry, I'm not familiar with solaris.
> \\wbr Vitaly Chernookiy
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Prabha
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vitaly V. Ch [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:09 PM
>> To: Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi Vitaly,
>>>
>>> Thanks so much for your reply, with / having 87M free the gunzip was
>>> working fine. But with /cdocs partition even though we have 139M
> free
>>> it was failing.
>>
>> You must NOT base only on info from df. You also need info from dumpfs
>> or tunefs:
>>
>> # tune2fs -l /dev/hda1
>> tune2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
>> ...
>> Free blocks:              677266
>> Free inodes:              1226276
>> ...
>>
>> in this output You can see rest of available files quantity as "free
>> inodes".
>>
>>>
>>> /:lz>df -kh /
>>> Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
>>> /                      963M   819M    87M    91%    /
>>> /:lz>gunzip -l omcran_r31_v0_92_helpfiles.tar.gz
>>>         compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
>>>           25437089            85783552  70.3%
>>> omcran_r31_v0_92_helpfiles.tar
>>> /:lz>gunzip omcran_r31_v0_92_helpfiles.tar.gz
>>> /:lz>echo $?
>>> 0
>>> /:lz>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Prabha
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Vitaly V. Ch [mailto:address@hidden
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:40 AM
>>> To: Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>> Subject: Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Hi ,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We are facing problem with gunzip command ,it is reporting no space
>>> left
>>>> on device.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> error
>>>>
>>>> gunzip: omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar: No space left on device
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Below are the details,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1. @/>gzip -V
>>>>
>>>> gzip 1.3.3-patch.1
>>>>
>>>> (2002-03-08)
>>>>
>>>> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
>>>>
>>>> Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
>>>>
>>>> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>>>
>>>> You may redistribute copies of this program
>>>>
>>>> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
>>>>
>>>> For more information about these matters, see the file named
> COPYING.
>>>>
>>>> Compilation options:
>>>>
>>>> DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H
>>>> HAVE_LSTAT
>>>>
>>>> Written by Jean-loup Gailly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2. @/cdocs>gunzip -l omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Result:
>>>>
>>>> compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
>>>>
>>>> 25826218            85349888    69.7% omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So the free space required to gunzip is 81Mb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /cdocs:lz>df -kh /cdocs
>>>>
>>>> Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
>>>>
>>>> /cdocs                 610M   416M   139M    75%    /cdocs
>>>
>>> It's like wrong. You exceed maximum quantity of files on Your
>>> filesystem.
>>>>
>>>> /cdocs:lz>gunzip omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> gunzip: omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar: No space left on device
>>>>
>>>> /cdocs:lz>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Even though we have 139Mb free space we got no space left on device
>>>> error.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your quick help on this will be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Prabha
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> \\wbr Vitaly Chernookiy
>>>
>>
>> \\wbr Vitaly Chernookiy
>>
>