Preclear Error... No space left on device

[DJRon]

I am using the preclear.dsk (ver 2017.07.10) pluginand am having an issue when trying to pre-clearing a disk. and get the following:

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/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/preclear.disk/script/preclear_disk.sh: line 1030: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/preclear.disk/script/preclear_disk.sh: line 1031: echo: write error: No space left on device
tail: write error: No space left on device
/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/preclear.disk/script/preclear_disk.sh: line 780: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/preclear.disk/script/preclear_disk.sh: line 932: echo: write error: No space left on device

 

Looking at my settings all the SATA drivers are set to AHCI (found this on another thread).

Latest Diags are attached.

Thanks in advance.

 

epcot-diagnostics-20170822-1054.zip

[unfun]

I am having the same issue using the latest Preclear.dsk tool.

My array only has 5gb of space left though my cache should have around 600gb.

please report back if you've found any solution and I will do the same.

[DJRon]

I have not resolved this issue yet. I had a controller card go bad so I have to resolve that issue first.

[unfun]

DJRon, 

I am currently attempting to pre-clear my drive again and things seem to be going well. So I thought I'd give you an update.

 

Since my last attempt back in August, it seems there has been an update to the pre-clear script.

I attempted to run it just doing a clear - 1 pass.

this failed.

I attempted to verify all of the Disk, and then just the MBR

this failed

I attempted to get a smart status report:

this failed

I am currently running the pre clear script set to erase all of disk and then clear - 1 pass

currently at pre-read 30%

if this fails I will assume the drive is dead and I will try the preclear with a new drive.

IF this works I will update and let you know how it goes.

So maybe give it a try again, I hope it goes well for you!

 

[gfjardim]

On 30/08/2017 at 9:40 AM, DJRon said:

I have not resolved this issue yet. I had a controller card go bad so I have to resolve that issue first.

 

You're out of memory. Your volatile ram disk (/tmp) is full and cannot be written to.

[DJRon]

Sorry I should have posted another update. Once I got the controller card replaced I used the following settings and the preclear completed successfully. I am ordering another drive and will preclear it when it arrives and let you know how it turns out.

[dtempleton]

On 9/19/2017 at 6:36 AM, gfjardim said:

 

You're out of memory. Your volatile ram disk (/tmp) is full and cannot be written to.

OK, what's the recourse?  I'm trying to preclear 2 8 tb drives mounted through USB and get the same 'no space left on device" error.

I have 4 gb of memory.  Is this an impossible scenario?  I've had preclear falures on smaller drives fail also when mounted via USB.  When this happens it brings down the entire server.  This did not occur when the drives were mounted via SATA along with the array drives, but I'm out of SATA ports and the new drives are still in their shells.

 

Is there a way to enable preclear to work on a USB mounted drive without this error?

 

Thanks

[JDBall]

Same problem for me when preclearing 8TB drives via USB.

 

Thanks

[DJRon]

As I mentioned earlier, once I adjusted my settings as seen in the screenshot I no longer had the error. But all my drives are connected via SATA and not USB.