[Users] issue with wrongly full simfs file system in VE

[Sam De Francesco]

It looks like the partition where the VE's are mounted on the hardware  
node is full.

On 23/06/2009, at 12:05 PM, Andrew Boag wrote:

> Hi all, I'm running about 8 VEs on an ubuntu 8.04 server host.
>
> Example is a debian etch VE (kiev) . This has been running quite well,
> but suddenly we noticed this issue (30G file system and 1.3G used but
> we're not able to write to the file system as non-root). Very bad
>
>
> kiev:/# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> simfs                  30G  1.3G   0G   100% /
> tmpfs                 1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /lib/init/rw
> tmpfs                 1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /dev/shm
> kiev:/#
>
> On further investigation, all of the VEs on the host were displaying
> this behaviour. i.e. no non-root writes even though there was plenty  
> of
> room in the / partition.
>
> We restarted the VEs independently, tried restoring them from backup,
> nothing helped. We even did /etc/init.d/vz restart on the host ... but
> things came up in the same weird state.
>
> As a last resort I rebooted the physical host. and hey presto all the
> VEs were fixed.
>
> very weird (and a little scary)
>
> Sorry, don't ask me to perform diagnostics on the "broken" VEs as I
> don't have them any more, I rebooted the hardware. I know this is bad
> for troubleshooting (but having no dev environment was bad as well)
>
> anyone seen this before???
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