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    Unfilling a full resierfs partition

    My NAS box has a murderfs, I mean reiserfs partition on it. It's FULL:
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    Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/loop0               13.2M     11.2M      2.0M  85% /initrd
    /dev/sda3               478.5M     57.1M    396.8M  13% /initrd/boot
    /dev/loop0               47.3M     24.4M     22.9M  52% /
    /dev/mtdblock2            1.0M    584.0k    440.0k  57% /etc
    tmpfs                    62.0M    276.0k     61.7M   0% /var
    /dev/cloop0               7.7M      5.0M      2.7M  65% /usr/lib
    /dev/cloop1               3.9M      1.0M      2.8M  26% /usr/share/zoneinfo
    /dev/cloop2              28.4M     24.1M      4.3M  85% /opt
    /dev/md0                464.3G    464.3G         0 100% /raid
    Trouble is I can't cd into any directories to delete stuff because it seems some space is needed on it to do that... anything that delves deeper than the root of /raid hangs up.

    Any ideas that don't involve me popping the drive in another box? I CBA with that.

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    Re: Unfilling a full resierfs partition

    how about trying.

    cat /dev/null > some_file_you_dont_want

    This might work as it updates an inode rather than removing one. Shame you didn't use lvm, as you might have been able to extend, resize, delete, resize (to much), reduce, resize to right size.

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