inittux 1,367 Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I copied all my data from my desktop over to my laptop(now it keeps saying out of diskspace, clean up date to add more file) and now my applications/drivers keep on crashing(ie:firefox,chrome, thunderbird,wireless).Is it possible that a filesystem(ext4) can become corrupt after being being overfull for too long? Will check the logs later when I get back home. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dungeon-Dave 293 Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Filesystem corruption can always occur, no matter what the filesystem is. EXT3, EXT4, ReiserFS and NTFS all have "journalling" capabilities to deal with - and fix - corruption when it occurs. The usual cause is something interrupting a write, such as a power-down, badly stopping a process (yes, "kill -9".. I'm looking AT YOU!) or a partition full/quota exceeded limitation. The journal should detect the failed write attempt and roll back the file to its previous state, or roll forwards the intended write before the outage - the result should either be "successful write" or "completely untouched", as opposed to "partially done but you need to do some work". I think the situation could just be a full partition - use "df" to check. If you're using LVM and there's unallocated extents then you could grow the filesystem to give yourself more space. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
inittux 1,367 Posted August 31, 2011 Author Share Posted August 31, 2011 It is a full partition, will move all my data back once I have my new pc put together. Not planning on adding another harddisk in my laptop. Not worth it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
inittux 1,367 Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 thanks for the info Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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