Disk Full Error When Disk is Not Full 1

[pickletech]

To All:
A couple of my users are having trouble when trying to save a file on our file server. They get an error that tells them that the disk is full, and they are not able to save. They have been saving the file on their hard drive, and repeatedly try to save it on the file server until it allows them. We do not have disk quotas enabled, and I have checked the actual hard drive and it has like 10 gigs free. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank You

 

[sioxley]

I recently had the same problem and it was a case of a corrupt directory. It would save fine to anywhere else except a couple of directories. They were a long way down in the directory tree and had a super long directory name. I restored from backup tape and cleaned up the structure, it was OK after that

 

[pickletech]

Thank you sioxley, I was totally stumped. But, that seems to have fixed it.

 

[sab4you]

scandisk is sometimes useful for these as well...

 

[pickletech]

hmm, never thought of that. if it happens again I'll try.

 

[sioxley]

Happy it worked for you pickletech. Just on the scan disk suggestion. This is a good idea but I meant to mention that scandisk was the first thing I tried when this happened and it didn't fix. In my case it looked like it was caused by a huge directory tree and extra long folder names.

 

[Tekmazter]

For furture reference to help those out where the folder isn't corrupted... several OTHER things can cause this:

Veritas Backup Exec tape drivers where the loader or tape drive is install on the same server as the problem exists.

Certain HP printer drivers will actually cause this. Usually on the client machine however.

Filenames that are too long will cause this quite a bit

TOO MANY FILES in a folder will cause this as well.


Just some OTHER things to look at is all.

 

[pickletech]

Tekmazter, thanx for the post, I would have never thought that Veritas Backup Exec tape drivers would cause the problem. Interesting because we do use Veritas, and have been having trouble with our tape drives. Although sioxley's post (deleting the folder and making a new one, due to corruption) worked here, I know we have had other cases of this. I wasn't sure what to do then, so I just told them to limp by. With everyone's help I should be able to fix them all now.