Troubles After Crash In R121

[Chero]

Hi,

As the topic says, I'm having some (a lot of) troubles.

Yesterday I was using tuxcards on my zaurus through ssh on my laptop. I didn't notice the battery on my laptop going down and my laptop suddenly went into hibernation-mode.
This caused my Z (which was x-forwarding tuxcards) to freeze with a blank screen.
Nothing helped, I couldn't get the ssh-connection back up, ctrl-alt-bs didn't work to get out of X, couldn't suspend any more, ...
I pulled out the battery, rebooted and now it always says "no space left on device" and I can't do anything that needs disk-access.

dmesg gives me a lot of "Argh, couldn't do this or that ...... no space left ...."

df gives me about 18Mb free on /, so I do have some space left.
Cleaning /var or /tmp is not an option : rm doesn't work "no space left ..."

I rebooted and I remounted / -> no go.

Any suggestions ??

Not having fun,
Chero.

[Meanie]

Hi,

As the topic says, I'm having some (a lot of) troubles.

Yesterday I was using tuxcards on my zaurus through ssh on my laptop. I didn't notice the battery on my laptop going down and my laptop suddenly went into hibernation-mode.
This caused my Z (which was x-forwarding tuxcards) to freeze with a blank screen.
Nothing helped, I couldn't get the ssh-connection back up, ctrl-alt-bs didn't work to get out of X, couldn't suspend any more, ...
I pulled out the battery, rebooted and now it always says "no space left on device" and I can't do anything that needs disk-access.

dmesg gives me a lot of "Argh, couldn't do this or that ...... no space left ...."

df gives me about 18Mb free on /, so I do have some space left.
Cleaning /var or /tmp is not an option : rm doesn't work "no space left ..."

I rebooted and I remounted / -> no go.

Any suggestions ??

Not having fun,
Chero.
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unfortunately, the only way to fix itthat i know off  is to reformat the partition.
i had this happen to me before when my root partition was full. couln't delete files cause there was no space left to unlink the files to. hope you hav recent backups...

[louigi600]

This is just theoretical ... I have not experimented but ...
Try booting with the emergency system ... then mount the normal system  jffs2 root filesystem and see if this way you can clean up stuff.
This way the jffs2 filesystem mounted is not a live root and you may be able to manage it better.
Or leaving it unmounted you may be able to run some sort of fsck tool on the device ...

[Chero]

Thanks for the answers, there's nothing really important on /

I'll go for the reflash.

Having fun again,
Chero.

[Capn_Fish]

It may be a good idea to try louigi600's idea, if you haven't flashed already, so people know if it works.

[joeabbott]

Thanks for the answers, there's nothing really important on /

I'll go for the reflash.

Having fun again,
Chero.
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If you haven't already reflashed, and you can get to a command line, take a look at your home directory. I have found a .raw file in my home directory on occasion, that fills my partition and gives me a similar situation. I never tried to figure out what causes it, but simply deleting this file frees up space without having to reflash.

[Meanie]

Thanks for the answers, there's nothing really important on /

I'll go for the reflash.

Having fun again,
Chero.
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If you haven't already reflashed, and you can get to a command line, take a look at your home directory. I have found a .raw file in my home directory on occasion, that fills my partition and gives me a similar situation. I never tried to figure out what causes it, but simply deleting this file frees up space without having to reflash.
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This is a catch 22 situation. You need to delete some big file because it used up all your space. You cannot add/modify/remove any files because you don't have any free space left.

Unfortunately, there is also no fsck.jffs2

[Chero]

Thanks for the answers, there's nothing really important on /

I'll go for the reflash.

Having fun again,
Chero.
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If you haven't already reflashed, and you can get to a command line, take a look at your home directory. I have found a .raw file in my home directory on occasion, that fills my partition and gives me a similar situation. I never tried to figure out what causes it, but simply deleting this file frees up space without having to reflash.
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This is a catch 22 situation. You need to delete some big file because it used up all your space. You cannot add/modify/remove any files because you don't have any free space left.

Unfortunately, there is also no fsck.jffs2
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I tried to clean things through the emergency system, but indeed there is no fsck.jffs2. I also tried to clean var and tmp, and some "lock-files" in my home-dir, but no go. I admit I only tried for about 30 minutes. then I decided to flash and take some notes on the settings I do, somebody might be interested. In fact, I was doing something like this on tuxcards when this thing happened. (the tuxcards-file was saved, I only lost what I did during the last 15 minutes)

My problem wasn't a big file or something like that. I had 18Mb free on /. But somehow the filesystem seemed to be corrupt.

Good thing : I never save data to / (not on the Z, not on my ubuntu-laptop, not even on my windows-box) , On the Z I have a "Documents" in my homedir which is a symlink to a folder on external media and I have backups of my settings.
Now I have a chance to start from a clean system ...    

Thanks for the answers.

Have fun,
Chero.

[louigi600]

This is a catch 22 situation. You need to delete some big file because it used up all your space. You cannot add/modify/remove any files because you don't have any free space left.

Unfortunately, there is also no fsck.jffs2

Well if you start up the emergency system you can mount the jffs2, I have checked this, it takes a bit to complete the mount but it is possible:
mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock2 /mnt/<somewhere>

#what follows is again theoretical ... but might still be usefull

by the mere fact that you do not have a live root mounted on it you may have sufficient space to delete something, if not you can do  ">" on a useless file, which will free up space.
You could for example zero out the logs in /mnt/<somewhere>/var/logs/*
which may give you enough space to do more stuff.

If you are accusing joeabbott's .raw files you coulod zero out the .raw files and then remove....


Meanie ....
Is there no fsck tool at all for jffs2 or none on pdaXrom? (by fsck tool I mean any file system consistency check tool)