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Browsing Posts published on April 19, 2009

If you find yourself in a situation where you have run out of drive space and your applications are failing as a result, you can run the following command to remove the reserve blocks on the drive and make some space. tune2fs -m 0 /dev/devicename Replace /dev/devicename with the partition you need to make space [...]

NOTE: RAID expansions can take a few hours to complete, especially if done on-line. This assumes that new drives have been added to the RAID array and a rebuild of the array has been done. You will need to follow these steps to have the OS recognize the new space. 1. Confirm fdisk -l shows [...]