I'm using LVM and XFS filesystems on my computer at home. This morning, after I pushed "g" from the Gnus *Group* buffer (to get new mail), it stopped part way through with an error message. Gnus prompted me in the XEmacs minibuffer saying "no space left on device: Continue (yes, no)?". My 10g "/home" logical volume had filled up.
I opened a root console, used "lvextend" to add a few spare gigs to my "/home" LV, then ran "xfs_growfs" to grow it's filesystem into the new space. I then went back to XEmacs, typed "yes" to the question, and watched while it happily finished tossing all of my mail into folders. It is actually coded in such a way that it can gracefully deal with this situation! (Had I said "no" there, it would have left my mail in the crashbox, safe and sound.) Wow, now that's really cool. What I'm wondering is, can "apt-get", "dpkg", and friends recover this easily from a device overflow? Was that thought of during their design and implementation? If it needs a little more space in "/var" or "/usr", can it notice that before filling the block device, and prompt me about it, so I can make some room somehow? (either by removing files, dpkg --purging something, or using the LVM tools to extend the logical volume and then the filesystem utility to grow the filesystem.) -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
