On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:55:40AM +0100, Koen Tavernier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been running amanda for a while now on a redhat system without any 
> problem. I'm now trying to run it on a debian 'unstable' system (amanda 
> 2.4.4p2 installed with dselect) with kernel 2.2.20. Whenever I run 
> amcheck I keep on getting negative  values for disk free space. I have 
> looked up this problem in the faq and only came across an instance of 
> amcheck reporting 0Kb, and that being patched in version 2.4.2 anyway.
> 
> I've included the output of amcheck:
> 
> 
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> ERROR: tape list /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist: parse error
> WARNING: holding disk /mnt/holding: only -2147483648 KB free (1024000 KB 
> requested)
>       (expecting a new tape)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist
> NOTE: it will be created on the next run
> Server check took 0.027 seconds
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: localhost: [dir /tmp/amanda needs 64KB, only has -2147483648KB 
> available.]
> ERROR: localhost: [dir /tmp/amanda needs 64KB, only has -2147483648KB 
> available.]
> ERROR: localhost: [dir /var/lib needs 64KB, only has -2147483648KB 
> available.]

That number is "2GB".

Sounds like some datatype mismatch.  Perhaps you were using
on RH a filesystem that did not handle files > 2GB and on
Deb you are.  Maybe a datatype changed is different in the
two inodes or superblocks and the system header files aren't
correct now.


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