Re: [afnog] [Mailer-Daemon at mantse.gh.com: Maildeliveryfailed:returning message to sender]

["Ayitey Bulley" <abulley at ghana.com>]

Brian,


>
> Ah, I think this is a familiar Solaris problem, and one which came up on
> this list last year. Symptoms:
>
> - you have spare space on the disk

YES

> - you have spare inodes on the disk (I presume - check with "df -i")

YES

> - but you can't create files; it says you are out of space

YES but you can create files


>
> # fstyp -v /dev/.... | head -20
> and look for "nbfree" (whole 8K blocks), "nffree" (fragments), and
"nifree"
> (inodes)
>
> My guess is that nbfree is zero, which means you will be unable to create
> any files larger than 8K. That's a problem with Maildir under Solaris UFS:
> you tend to keep creating and deleting lots of small files, so your 8K
> blocks get fragmented and you have no whole ones left.

Nope, "nbfree" was not zero
nbfree  6126    ndir    46572   nifree  1683549 nffree  9310679


>
> My suggestion is that you treat that remaining space as wasted, and just
add
> extra disks as if the filesystem were full. You might be able to reformat
> the filesystem with a smaller bsize, but in any case that would end up
> destroying all of the data on the disk.
>

I have added extra disk space i.e. "growfs" the meta device.


Thanks, I hope this resolves my problem for a while. I guess I am going to
look into delivering mail on multiple disks i.e. /home, /home1 etc etc.

--Ayitey

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