Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: jffs2: -ENOSPC when truncating file?! | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:36:07 +0900 |
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On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 00:57 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to free space by truncating big file, and I get: > > root@fic-gta01:~# ls -al gps.nmea > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2332070 Feb 19 22:13 gps.nmea > root@fic-gta01:~# > gps.nmea > -sh: cannot create gps.nmea: No space left on device > root@fic-gta01:~# rm gps.nmea > root@fic-gta01:~# > gps.nmea > root@fic-gta01:~#
You need to write a log entry indicating the new length of the file. There is no space for new log entries.
There is a special case for removal -- 'rm gps.nmea' would work. Perhaps we should add a special case for truncation too, so that it can also use the extra pool of free space.
-- dwmw2
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