[SAC] Alert: lists.osgeo.org disk full

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Tue Dec 4 08:38:12 PST 2012


On 12/04/2012 07:47 AM, Martin Spott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:06:53PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
>> the silence in my inbox made me check the list server:
>> voilà - disk full!
> 
> I've moved the mailman backup file off-site.
> 
> Anyhow, I'm surprised how inefficient the beast is. It's having a 50
> GByte disk, "df" claims that 41 GByte are used, 6.4 are actually
> available - and "du" told me that only 33 GByte are actually stored in
> files.  This accounts for almost 1/3 overhead (10 GByte overhead at 33
> GByte files) - quite impressing.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Martin.
> 

I'm not sure what the overhead is from, I can only suspect it's related
to how mailman works - everything else should be standard debian (though
I think it's ext3 not ext4).

We have more space we can allocate, how much do we want? 10G, 20G?

Thanks,
Alex


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