topic Re: / full in Operating System - HP-UX

/ full

Nobody's Hero — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:36:21 GMT

I am running a NNM install on a 11.11 machine. Everytime I run the install '/' fills up to 100%.

I cant find the file that is doing it. I checked all '.' files and dirs. I dont see anyting,,,,anywhere in root that is doing this. Anyone seen this before?

Re: / full

Nobody's Hero — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:39:28 GMT

I found it,,,sorry. NNM was populating /etc/OV.

Re: / full

Florian Heigl (new acc) — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:42:07 GMT

do a
du -kx | sort -rn | head
or
find / -xdev -size +10000
both before and after installation, one of these commands should find it.
You can use diff on the results, but it should be obvious.
OVO also spills it's Java and other error messages into /etc/rc.log - have a look there.

I won't ask if /tmp is a filesystem of it's own :)

If You found the bad file, don't simply delete it, do a fuser -u on it first, only delete if it's not opened by anything.

Re: / full

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:42:59 GMT

Do a bdf. Are all your expected filesystems there. My best guess is that a filesystem is not mounted. This is not normal behavior. NNM's impact on / should be minimal. It is also possible that a symbolic link under /opt or /var that used to point to another filesystem now points only to the mountpoint under /.

Re: / full

James George_1 — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:00:49 GMT

Hi

After trying the above solutions ...if you still have the problem , it could be possible that some process is holding the space ... do an fuser on the / File system
and see who is accessing it ... if possible try killing / stoping that application / process ... or a reboot will clear the spcae , if it is process related.

Rgds / James

Re: / full

D Block 2 — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:37:08 GMT

if it's /etc/OV directory causing / full, one solution is to create a Symbolic link of /etc/OV and point it to a new created File-System area that has lots of space.

for example... let's suppose /home is a file-system having lot's of Free space.

then create: /home/OV and link -s the /etc/OV into /home/OV.

you might want to also do this befoe you perform the link:

before link:
Stop all OV processes
mv /etc/OV /etc/OV.OLD
mkdir /home/OV
ln -s /home/OV /etc/OV
cd /etc/OV.OLD
find . -print |cpio -pdmuv /home/OV

now, bring up OV, and it might be writing to /etc/OV, which now points to /home/OV.

again, substitute: "/home" for a file-system name or a new file-system with lot's of free space.

as an alternative here, if it's a log file that is causing the space problems, you might want to simply link it's parent directory instead.

bol (best of luck)

Re: / full

Florian Heigl (new acc) — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:03:30 GMT

I checked - we don't have /etc/OV on our OV servers. Unfortunately, I'm not administering it, so I can't tell You what they changed to achieve that, and I'm afraid they won't remember anymore.