Freebsd 6.0
/var is under /

Well it is hard for me guessing the problem. For over a week I applied same
combinations to my many servers. But just this one continue to fail
strangely.

I am at the point to blame OS installation and reinstall it. But server is
in production line. So this is my last choice.


Aykut Soner Demirkol
System Admin
Bogazici University
0212 359 4715


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org]
On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain
Sent: 20 Eylül 2006 Çarşamba 02:38
To: Aykut Demirkol
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Strange size estimate

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 at 12:16am, Aykut Demirkol wrote

> I have a problem that i couldn't found answer in mail archive.
> My amanda 2.5.1 client (with gtar.1.15.1)gives
>
> sendsize[40863]: time 616.907: Total bytes written: 1107597486080 (1.1TiB,
> 1.7GiB/s)
> sendsize[40863]: time 616.908: .....
> sendsize[40863]: estimate time for / level 0: 616.904
> sendsize[40863]: estimate size for / level 0: 1081638170 KB
> sendsize[40863]: time 616.908: waiting for runtar "/" child
> sendsize[40863]: time 616.933: after runtar / wait
> gnutar_calc_estimates: warning - seek failed: Illegal seek
> sendsize[40863]: time 617.053: done with amname / dirname / spindle -1
> sendsize[40861]: time 617.087: child 40863 terminated normally
> sendsize: time 617.087: pid 40861 finish time Tue Sep 19 21:33:44 2006
>
> Well the strange think is my client have 30GB disk but gtar calculates
> 1.1TiB disk space.

What OS/distro are you running, and on what architecture?  Is /var in the 
/ partition?

The usual cause for a wild estimate like that is a ginormous sparse file, 
such as /var/log/lastlog sometimes is on 64bit Linux systems.

But I thought the newer tars handled that properly...

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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