QST: I'll be shutting down mastodon.hams.social in the next hour or so (around 2023-06-28 11:00 UTC-7) to increase it's available disk space. It should only be down for a few minutes. Please follow here (@smitty, on a different host so not affefcted by the shutdown) for updates.
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QST: mastodon.hams.social is down right now for emergency maintenance. It ran out of diskspace. I'm presenting upgrading the VM to increase available disk space, and the e2fsck before running the resize2fs is taking .. a long time.
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We are truly spoiled by SSDs, aren't we?
FS resize happening now.
In other news, I am not a fan of LVM... Never have been.
QST! Mastodon.hams.social is back up and running! Thank you for your patience! Check back on this thread for a full timeline of what happened.
This should address the "500 Server Error" problems we've been seeing for the last week or two.
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@smitty
We're pretty spoiled by such reliable filesystems, too. At our shared previous employer, I discovered that at least one of our platforms didn't have enough memory to fsck it's filesystem.
If the fs ever bought it -- and it did consistently ALSO because the disk was too big -- you were pretty much doomed.
It was a fun discovery.
@smitty
Actually, now that I think about it, I think the problem was in the LVM layer...? Nearly all the other customers didn't use them that way. It was only the one who stitched all the drives together into one giant volume and were still using the old OS who had problems. They were storing security video.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss the excitement of that scale.
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