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# 1  
Old 07-28-2015
Can't hanlde files in certain directories
On a RHEL 5.5 I have this filesystem:

Code:
cat /etc/mtab
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat /cpc_uat ext2 rw 0 0

which is not ful:
Code:
df -h
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat
                       40G   32G  7.1G  82% /cpc_uat

and doesn;t have a huge number of inodes used either:
Code:
df -i
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat
                     5242880   28349 5214531    1% /cpc_uat

the problem is that on some directories on this FS i cannot do anything (ls, cat or vi) on any file because it gets stuck. For what is worht those directories are the home dirs of some application users.
I assume it may be that the respective directories have a huge number of files, however they cannot be more than 2834.
I tried
Code:
 /bin/ls -f

(to avoid coloration and default ls sorting) and still it gets stuck. How can I acess/cleanup these directories on this FS?
Last edited by rbatte1; 07-28-2015 at 09:41 AM.. Reason: Corrected CODE tags
# 2  
Old 07-28-2015
Does find returns results ?
Code:
find /cpc_uat -type f

ls should return results, but when you have large number of files it will be slow.
3000 files is not a big number, so that should work fairly fast. I suspect a much higher number of files in specified directories.
# 3  
Old 07-28-2015
Since you mention that these directories are user home directories, is there a automounter involved here at all?
# 4  
Old 07-28-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Peasant
Does find returns results ?
Code:
find /cpc_uat -type f

ls should return results, but when you have large number of files it will be slow.
3000 files is not a big number, so that should work fairly fast. I suspect a much higher number of files in specified directories.
Hi Peasant!

Thanks for the reply. it was a typo, I ment 28349. That;s the number of inodes used on that FS. I tried your command and it also got stuck. But I think it was a FS problem, because I umounted it and checked it with fsck and it found some errors:
Code:
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat: Inode 1474610, i_size is 9835956, should be 9842688.  FIXED.
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat: Inode 1474610, i_blocks is 19296, should be 19256.  FIXED.
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat: Inode 1770350, i_size is 9835956, should be 9842688.  FIXED.
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat: Inode 1770350, i_blocks is 19264, should be 19256.  FIXED.
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat: Inode 1771268, i_size is 1170832887, should be 1170841600.  FIXED.
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat: Inode 3016246, i_size is 1733108917, should be 1733115904.  FIXED.
/dev/mapper/cpc_uat_app-cpc_uat: Inode 3016246, i_blocks is 3388352, should be 3388312.  FIXED.

After this I mounted back the FS and everything worked.
# 5  
Old 07-28-2015
Do a backup immediately and check disks for errors.
You will probably have to replace the disk.

Is this redundant (in mirror or fibre/iscsi) or alike ?

Regards
Peasant.
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