topic Re: System Messages in Operating System - HP-UX

System Messages

Xiaowei Niu — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:23:16 GMT

I got the following messages constantly, wonder someone could help to give me ideas.

1) /dev/vg00/v015 file system full (1 block extent)

2) syslog: Legato Storage Manager media: (critical) backup to pool 'default' waiting for 1 writable backup tapes.

Thank you.

Re: System Messages

harry d brown jr — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:46:09 GMT

1) /dev/vg00/v015 file system full (1 block extent)

You have a full filesystem, and the system is automatically extending it. Do a "bdf | grep vg00|grep v015" and you'll find your filesystem.

2) syslog: Legato Storage Manager media: (critical) backup to pool 'default' waiting for 1 writable backup tapes.

Looks like Legato is waiting for you to put a "write-enabled" tape in the tape drive. With dds tapes, 'no white' means 'no write' (the tab on the back of the tape).

live free or die
harry

Re: System Messages

Printaporn_1 — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:55:13 GMT

Hi,
Beside from extend v015 file system , you can also find out what process wite file and fill up the file system.
Or does somebody use this file system for backup ?

Re: System Messages

T. M. Louah — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 03:33:09 GMT

1) if your filesystem is full, you need to extend it:
- umount, lvextend, extendfs & mount
here a thread that allows you to keep an eye on the size of your filesystems:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x16f96c96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

2) Do you have Legato Networker, to start with?
if you don't have it that's probably the cause of those errors appearing in the syslog.
the script /sbin/rc2.d/networker is starting some processes at system boot.
If that's the case run /sbin/rc2.d/networker -stop and then wait a few seconds .. the
processes should all stopped and the messages should then stop being logged. you can remove the /sbin/rc2.d/networker script and the scheduling script for it in /sbin/init.d/.

Re: System Messages

Helen French — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 05:32:55 GMT

Hi,

1) This message means that your file system is full. You may need to remove some unwanted files or you have to extend it.

2) This message is a normal one during Legato backup. If you are running any backups, and if the current media in the drive is full or from a different pool, then it will ask you to insert a new media (which is labeled) or a recyclable media.
If you are not using the Legato backups, then you may need to stop all Legato services/daemons through 'nsr_shutdown' command. You can also shutdown the networker through '/sbin/init.d/networker stop' command.

HTH,
Shiju

Re: System Messages

Tibi Baraboi — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:41:12 GMT

Regarding File System extend..
You don't need to umount the file system. Instead you can use lvextend and fsadm to resize the file system online. It is critical if you have a 24/24 service level of availability.

Also you can use just df -k /dev/vgxx/lvname to ckeck just one logical volume.
bdf will show you all mounted file systems.

Re: System Messages

Rita C Workman — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:07:07 GMT

On many of my servers..lvol5 is generally /home.

My guess is somebody has run amok with putting things under their home directory.

I'd be running a quick du on this:
du /home | sort -nr | grep ^....[0-9] > /tmp/mycheckit.file

Just a thought,
Rita

Re: System Messages

Rita C Workman — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:11:59 GMT

Sorry, my mistake...I thought lvol5, but you typed v015.

Either case you could check to see what's taking the space..change du /home to du /v015 ...

Rita

Re: System Messages

Tom Danzig — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:17:06 GMT

If your DBA installed Oracle and just selected "Install everything" then Legato Storage Manager will be installed as it comes bundle with many versions of Oracle. You'll see a bunch of:

"Legato Storage Manager media: (critical) backup to pool 'default' waiting for 1 writable backup tapes. " messages in syslog.

If you're not using Legato (i.e. networker), use swremove to uninstall. My DBA's have done this 4-5 time. What a pain!