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VAR File system currently 79%

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:45:17 GMT

Hi All,

Could anyone advice me , Can we delete files under /var/stm/logs/os

mentioned in the attachment,

Currently i am facing "disk spcae" issue under /var File system ,

Thanks,
Johnson

Re: VAR File system currently 79%

Jeeshan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:07:18 GMT

what is your /var/adm/syslog folder size?

is there any crash files in /var/adm/crash folder or it's in separate mount point?

Re: VAR File system currently 79%

Jeeshan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:14:56 GMT

check this thread

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1160426

Re: VAR File system currently 79%

Jeeshan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:16:53 GMT

All of the files in the /var/stm/logs/os directory can be removed
EXCEPT for the following two files:

logN.raw.cur <---- DO NOT REMOVE THIS FILE

memlog <---- DO NOT REMOVE THIS FILE

However, if the files are removed, then information in old logs will be lost.

"When the logging daemon detects an event, it logs an entry in a system log file located - by default - in the directory
'/var/stm/logs/os'. The raw log file names have the format 'logN.raw,' where N is a number that starts at 1 and is incremented each time a new log file is created with the command Switch Log. The only exception to the raw log file naming convention is the log file to which the logging daemon is currently logging data; this file is called 'logN.raw.cur.'

"Memory errors, when detected by the memory logging daemon, are logged into the memory log file called memlog."

Re: VAR File system currently 79%

Ganesan R — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:29:28 GMT

Hi,

All *.raw files can be removed safely. As mentioned in the previous reply, these are all old events generated by OS.

However 79% of var utilisation is not an big deal. You still have enough space. You can look into other directories as well to free up the space. use this command to find out which dir consumes majority of space.

#du -sx /var |sort -nr |head -20

Then go to that directory and free up the space.

Re: VAR File system currently 79%

Johnson Punniyalingam — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:36:17 GMT

Bunch of Thanks, For all ,

Rgds,
Johnson