[linux-lvm] Confusing error: No space left on device

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Pyeron
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:53
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Pyeron
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:21
> > 
> > This is likely a problem between keyboard and chair, but it 
> > has got me confused all the same.
> > 
> > I was having issues with rsync, so I switched to dd and the 
> > same problem persists.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > History says "lvcreate --size 8589934592b --name 
> > ciphershed-dmz-http vg_five66"
> > 
> > 
> > root at five-66 ~
> > # dd of=/dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http bs=512 if=/dev/zero
> > dd: writing `/dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http': No space 
> > left on device
> > 8580489+0 records in
> > 8580488+0 records out
> > 4393209856 bytes (4.4 GB) copied, 11.1884 s, 393 MB/s
> > 
> > root at five-66 ~
> > # lvdisplay /dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http
> >   --- Logical volume ---
> >   LV Path                /dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http
> >   LV Name                ciphershed-dmz-http
> >   VG Name                vg_five66
> >   LV UUID                3yQHr9-WpdJ-76eL-4lEZ-hv0X-HP3N-GgqOvN
> >   LV Write Access        read/write
> >   LV Creation host, time five-66.pdinc.us, 2015-02-17 05:05:17 -0500
> >   LV Status              available
> >   # open                 0
> >   LV Size                8.00 GiB
> >   Current LE             2048
> >   Segments               1
> >   Allocation             inherit
> >   Read ahead sectors     auto
> >   - currently set to     256
> >   Block device           253:3
> > 
> > 
> > root at five-66 ~
> > # vgdisplay
> >   --- Volume group ---
> >   VG Name               vg_five66
> >   System ID
> >   Format                lvm2
> >   Metadata Areas        1
> >   Metadata Sequence No  36
> >   VG Access             read/write
> >   VG Status             resizable
> >   MAX LV                0
> >   Cur LV                5
> >   Open LV               2
> >   Max PV                0
> >   Cur PV                1
> >   Act PV                1
> >   VG Size               1.82 TiB
> >   PE Size               4.00 MiB
> >   Total PE              476806
> >   Alloc PE / Size       19866 / 77.60 GiB
> >   Free  PE / Size       456940 / 1.74 TiB
> >   VG UUID               drT68w-cRLR-ZcmV-VYFz-haaK-Djd4-S8q9EV
> > 
> > 
> > root at five-66 ~
> > # rpm -qf `which vgdisplay`
> > lvm2-2.02.111-2.el6_6.1.x86_64
> > 
> > root at five-66 ~
> > # uname -a
> > Linux five-66.pdinc.us 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed 
> > Jan 28 21:11:36 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> # lvremove /dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http
> Do you really want to remove active logical volume 
> ciphershed-dmz-http? [y/n]: y
>   Logical volume "ciphershed-dmz-http" successfully removed
> 
> root at five-66 ~
> # lvcreate --size 8589934592b --name ciphershed-dmz-http vg_five66
>   Logical volume "ciphershed-dmz-http" created
> 
> root at five-66 ~
> # dd of=/dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http bs=512 if=/dev/zero
> dd: writing `/dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http': No space 
> left on device
> 16777217+0 records in
> 16777216+0 records out
> 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 254.765 s, 33.7 MB/s
> 

<snip/>

It is back.

root at five-66 ~
# rsync --inplace --progress server:/var/lib/libvirt/images/ciphershed-dmz-http.img /dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http -vv
opening connection using: ssh server rsync --server --sender -vve.Ls --inplace . /var/lib/libvirt/images/ciphershed-dmz-http.img
delta-transmission enabled
ciphershed-dmz-http.img
  4285333400  49%  113.37MB/s    0:00:37
rsync: write failed on "/dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http": No space left on device (28)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(301) [receiver=3.0.6]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (48 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600) [generator=3.0.6]

root at five-66 ~
# dd of=/dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http bs=512 if=/dev/zero
dd: writing `/dev/vg_five66/ciphershed-dmz-http': No space left on device
8580489+0 records in
8580488+0 records out
4393209856 bytes (4.4 GB) copied, 11.2402 s, 391 MB/s

-Jason



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