On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 16:22 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: > I began an update of one of our servers via yum and, coincidentally or > not, I have been getting the following logged into the message file since: > > messages:Jan 7 15:55:51 inet07 kernel: post_create: setxattr failed, > rc=28 (dev=dm-0 ino=280175) > > > Now, this tells me that dev dm-0 is out of space but, what is dm-0? On my system, ]# ls -l /dev/mapper total 0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 Dec 29 10:07 VolGroup00-LogVol00 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 3 Dec 29 10:08 VolGroup01-Home01 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 2 Dec 29 10:08 VolGroupAA-lvol1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 Dec 29 10:08 VolGroupAE-LogVolTemp crw------- 1 root root 10, 63 Dec 29 10:07 control [root at centos01 ~]# ls -l /dev/dm* brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 0 Dec 29 10:07 /dev/dm-0 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 1 Dec 29 10:08 /dev/dm-1 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 2 Dec 29 10:08 /dev/dm-2 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 3 Dec 29 10:08 /dev/dm-3 S/b very similar on yours. > > So, can anyone tell me what is happening and why? NP here. Do a df or du on the equivalent LVM(?) item. > <snip> HTH -- Bill