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XFS tip: If you truncate a file it doesn't update metadata. That's how you can get back space for the journal log to start cleaning up crap without rebooting t

by esseph 4mo ago

XFS tip: If you truncate a file it doesn't update metadata. That's how you can get back space for the journal log to start cleaning up crap without rebooting the box and/or taking services down.

Tsiklon 4mo ago
Thank you, I’ll keep this in my hat for the next time.
hdgvhicv 4mo ago
My initialisation script creates five 100M files in /root (which is on /) to give something to manually delete for breathing room.