[linux-lvm] Re: linux-lvm digest, Vol 1 #624 - 8 msgs

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

James,

good to hear that it works for you now.

Cheers,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:11:49AM -0400, James B. Byrne  wrote:
> On 4 Jul 2002 at 4:49, "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" 
> <mauelshagen at sistina.com> wrote:
> 
> > Did you just grow the LV?
> > 
> 
> Yes
> 
> > You need to extend the FS using the respective FS resizing tool as
> > well (resize2fs, resize_reiserfs, ...).
> > 
> 
> Did that too.
> 
> > BTW: for ext2 the e2fsadm(8) command, which comes with LVM does both
> > for you.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I tried this originally but I can't remember if it worked first off or if in 
> my ignorance I ran it out of sequence, had problems, and ended up 
> doing something else.  In any case eventually I managed to get the 
> file system up to 350 Mb.
> 
> > This doesn't really explain the local/remote difference unless:
> > 
> > - local users had root credentials avoiding the fs
> >   "reserved block count" to matter
> 
> As it turned out the local user did have root capability but when su to 
> a non-privileged user the local file transfers also worked.
> > 
> > - files uploaded where very large compared to the locally stored files
> 
> The reverse in fact, the local files moved in for testing averaged 10x 
> the size of normal ftp uploads.  However, the culprit was discovered 
> and it wasn't lvm.  The problem appears to have been a simple 
> permission problem in the directory tree for the ftp chroot.  Why 
> pureftpd chose to report this as a disk full error is beyond me.
> 
> However, it is worth noting that rebooting the system, without 
> making any other changes, caused pureftp to subsequently report a 
> different error message for the same activity. The message didn't 
> actually say access forbidden ( I think that it was more like "non 
> existent file", but with the application of a little intuition it did point to 
> a permissions problem.  
> 
> Regards,
> Jim
> 
> 
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