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SubjectRe: jffs2: -ENOSPC when truncating file?!
On Sun 2008-02-24 09:36:07, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes, that would be nice. I somehow assumed that truncate can't fail
for -ENOSPC ... I was trying to actually free some space on the
filesystem...
Pavel
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