[mythtv-users] OT: Linux problem

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Damian,

Sunday, September 27, 2015, 10:30:42 PM, you wrote:

> On 27/09/2015 20:58, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi Damian,
>>
>> Sunday, September 27, 2015, 10:09:45 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> On 19/09/2015 11:57, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>>> On 19/09/15 12:23, Damian wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It had a bit less space than this, but I just cleared some files,
>>>>> rebooted the server, and rebooted one of my computers that connects to
>>>>> the server. It's still having the same problem, but there should be more
>>>>> than enough space on there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hm... you are using samba, right? Connecting from both Linux and
>>>> Windows clients using the SMB protocols?
>>>>
>>>> IMHO, the key is the logs. Since my installation is Fedora (and just
>>>> works ;) ) I don't have the Ubuntu setup at hand. It might be that
>>>> samba logs in /var/log/samba, dunno. But you really need to find the
>>>> server error message; the cripled information from the client can be
>>>> just any problem.
>>>>
>>>> A quick google gives me [1]. Basically, I would try something like that.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>>
>>>> --alec
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/samba/book/ch04_08.html
>>> Thanks for this Alec,
>>
>>> I've just looked in /var/log/samba and the most recent files in there
>>> are 7 days old. I'm having this problem multiple times per day, so it
>>> looks like an error isn't getting reported on the server end (unless I'm
>>> missing something).
>>
>>> The 7 days old files are all 0 bytes.
>>> There are also some *.1.gz files, but the most recent of them is from
>>> the 19th September.
>>
>>> I have also taken a look at the link you posted, but I'm afraid it's way
>>> beyond my level of comprehension! :-)
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Damian
>>
>> Are you perhaps out of inodes on your logging volume?
>> `df` gives you info about space used/free on all volumes
>> `df -i` gifes info on the inodes.
>>
>>
>> Tot mails,
>>    Hika

> Hi Hika,

> Kirk solved the problem with the line Max Protocol = SMB2 in smb.conf

> However, just incase I do have a problem with my inodes, here's the 
> output of those two commands ...

> $ df
> Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1        30628664   11420840  17629028  40% /
> none                    4          0         4   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> udev              3979564          4   3979560   1% /dev
> tmpfs              804732       1648    803084   1% /run
> none                 5120          4      5116   1% /run/lock
> none              4023644         72   4023572   1% /run/shm
> none               102400         12    102388   1% /run/user
> /dev/sdb1      1922727728 1597370688 227665036  88% /files
> /dev/sda4       197939444  158518748  29342848  85% /tv
> $ df -i
> Filesystem        Inodes  IUsed     IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1        1946416 245142   1701274   13% /
> none             1005911      4   1005907    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
> udev              994891    487    994404    1% /dev
> tmpfs            1005911    520   1005391    1% /run
> none             1005911      7   1005904    1% /run/lock
> none             1005911      3   1005908    1% /run/shm
> none             1005911     17   1005894    1% /run/user
> /dev/sdb1      122101760 356085 121745675    1% /files
> /dev/sda4       12582912   1383  12581529    1% /tv
> gingerserver at gingerserver-ProLiant-MicroServer:~$

> Does anything look wrong there?

> Thanks,
> Damian

Nothing problematic. As to inodes the reverse. You have many to many
on files and tv. Which is common as you mostly have big files there.
It's just a waist of space, but something you only can change at
formatting time. You need one inode for every file, so if you have a
lot of small files, you can run out. If you know you're only going to
have big files, you can allocate less space. Running out of inodes has
the same effect as running out of space. You can not save anything
anymore. Which could cause you having no logs for a week. It can for
instance happen if you due to a problem get thousands of zero byte
files in /tmp or so.



Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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