On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 7:45 PM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have an svn server running as a backup system on an Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS > SERVER. > > $ svn --version > svn, version 1.13.0 (r1867053) > compiled May 12 2022, 20:47:08 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > > Today after returning from a 2-week trip I discovered that the Ubuntu server > had > run out of disk space on / and could not create files of various kinds... > > After I investigated the situation it turns out that > /var/lib/svn/pc/db/txn-protorevs alone uses up 11.9 GB!
These are "dead" or "stale" uncommitted transactions[1]. You can use `svnadmin lstxns`[2] to list them and `svnadmin rmtxns`[3] to remove them. The first link has several helpful hints. [1]: https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.diskspace.deadtxns [2]: https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.lstxns.html [3]: https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.rmtxns.html > > I don't know if the system was close to full when I went on the trip but it is > now... > > But the latest commits to the /var/lib/svn/pc.. was about a month ago so I > cannot understand what has happened. > > So on this system svn is installed with its data in the default location > /var/lib/svn/... > > What can I do now to make it operational again? > Can I move the data to a different disk partition or something like that? > But how would that work concerning the svn operations? > > The drive situation is like this: > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev 6.8G 0 6.8G 0% /dev > tmpfs 1.4G 3.6M 1.4G 1% /run > /dev/nvme0n1p6 30G 28G 0 100% / <==== FULL!! > tmpfs 6.9G 0 6.9G 0% /dev/shm > tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock > tmpfs 6.9G 0 6.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > /dev/nvme0n1p8 259G 216G 31G 88% /home > /dev/loop1 117M 117M 0 100% /snap/core/14784 > /dev/nvme0n1p1 256M 34M 223M 14% /boot/efi > /dev/nvme0n1p7 79G 56M 75G 1% /home/bosse/www/MSNBC/data > /dev/loop3 117M 117M 0 100% /snap/core/14946 > /dev/loop4 92M 92M 0 100% /snap/lxd/24061 > /dev/loop5 64M 64M 0 100% /snap/core20/1852 > /dev/loop6 92M 92M 0 100% /snap/lxd/23991 > /dev/loop0 9.7M 9.7M 0 100% /snap/canonical-livepatch/202 > /dev/loop7 9.7M 9.7M 0 100% /snap/canonical-livepatch/209 > /dev/loop8 64M 64M 0 100% /snap/core20/1879 > tmpfs 1.4G 0 1.4G 0% /run/user/1000 > > And using the ncdu utitility: > > --- /var/lib/svn ------------------------ > /.. > 13.2 GiB [##########] /pc > 1.9 GiB [# ] /marketing > 686.9 MiB [ ] /eng > 402.6 MiB [ ] /pcb > 342.2 MiB [ ] /cmp > 335.2 MiB [ ] /appdev > 258.2 MiB [ ] /web > 238.3 MiB [ ] /hw > 236.7 MiB [ ] /bosse > 170.5 MiB [ ] /ei > 84.3 MiB [ ] /newprod > 300.0 KiB [ ] /private > > --- /var/lib/svn/pc ---------------------- > /.. > 13.2 GiB [##########] /db > 40.0 KiB [ ] /hooks > 20.0 KiB [ ] /conf > 12.0 KiB [ ] /locks > 4.0 KiB [ ] README.txt > 4.0 KiB [ ] format > > > Any ideas & suggestions welcome.... > > > -- > Bo Berglund > Developer in Sweden > -- With best regards, Pavel Lyalyakin VisualSVN Team
