Ubuntu 14.04 MongoDB shell version: 2.4.9
doing backup of mongodb used for ceilometer in OpenStack Kilo. get no space error during back. Where is partial back file? What file do I delete to get rid of the partial backup file. How do I recover the space taken up by the failed backup?
stack@cloud:~$ mongodump --username ceilometer --password mypassword --host 3.2.0.10 --port 27017 --db ceilometer
...
Thu Apr 13 18:33:33.033 Collection File Writing Progress: 39821000/94803354 42% (objects)
Thu Apr 13 18:33:43.960 Collection File Writing Progress: 39824300/94803354 42% (objects)
Thu Apr 13 18:33:48.731 Collection File Writing Progress: 39827600/94803354 42% (objects)
**assertion: 14035 couldn't write to file: errno:28 **No space left on device****
stack@cloud:/$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 49474116 4 49474112 1% /dev
tmpfs 9897052 1552 9895500 1% /run
/dev/mapper/cloud--vg-root 381244660 361897752 0 100% /
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 49485248 0 49485248 0% /run/shm
none 102400 4 102396 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 240972 237343 0 100% /boot
Since you didn't specify --out or -o on the command line to mongodump, the output would default to the current directory.
I would suggest you verify by running ls -la ~/dump. You can remove the dump by running rm -rf ~/dump.