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Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life!

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Am 15.11.2016 um 06:00 schrieb Borden Rhodes:
> I start blindly casting whatever btrfs spells I can find on the
> Internet to fix 'no space left on device' errors. One of them
> eventually works and df -h correctly reports the free space in my /var
> partition and Debian boots normally again.
> 
> My question, therefore, is whether this is a btrfs bug that got
> triggered by the full /var partition or whether Debian is designed to
> break irrecoverably when /var fills up. Any ideas of what happened?
> 

Does anything on the Debian Wiki on Btrfs [1] seem familiar? Other than
that I can only guess, but maybe check the SMART information of your
disk(s) for excessive errors, as it _could_ be that defective sectors
prevent Btrfs from doing it's COW magic.


[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs#WARNINGS

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A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Borden Rhodes <jrvp@bordenrhodes.com> - 2016-11-15 06:20 +0100
  Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-11-15 06:40 +0100
  Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2016-11-15 07:10 +0100
  btrfs filesystem full problems (was Re: A full /var partition  destroyed 3 hours of my life!) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-11-15 10:00 +0100
  Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 10:30 +0100
  Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life! Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-11-15 11:10 +0100

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