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Message-Id: <1203813368.5771.174.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:36:07 +0900 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org Subject: Re: jffs2: -ENOSPC when truncating file?! 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@...-gta01:~# ls -al gps.nmea > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2332070 Feb 19 22:13 gps.nmea > root@...-gta01:~# > gps.nmea > -sh: cannot create gps.nmea: No space left on device > root@...-gta01:~# rm gps.nmea > root@...-gta01:~# > gps.nmea > root@...-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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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