topic Re: HPUX file system error in Operating System - HP-UX

HPUX file system error

tr10385 — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:41:56 GMT

Hello
Could anyone help me with following issue:

I have a access server which runs on hpux 11.0 os. This access server is accessed remotely via ISDN link. After access this access server remotely, I am trying to telnet to a node which is also hpux machine, the connection is successful but a big bang error showing /home: write failed, file system is full" gets displayed. Even when I tried to run basic hpux commands, the same error gets displayed.
Can anyone help me, what actually this error means. I am new to system admin area and basic knowledge about hpux. What is the impact of this error.

Re: HPUX file system error

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:44:14 GMT

Hi,

As the error message says, your Filesystem is running out of space. Check with

# bdf

You need to cleanup unwanted files, dirs, patches, etc..

-Arun

Re: HPUX file system error

Rick Garland — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:46:36 GMT

/home filesystem is full - there is no more room in the filesystem to write new data. Do some clean up on the /home filesystem. Check your progress with bdf command.

Re: HPUX file system error

Peter Godron — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:42:38 GMT

cnu,
as already indicated the file system is full.

You probably got the message on every command you tried because you had command history switched on.
This means every command you type is trying to be logged into $HOME/.sh_history, but no room was available.

Re: HPUX file system error

Bill Hassell — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:53:33 GMT

This is a serious error since one or more filesystems are full and errors are occurring for all users and probably your applications. The system adminstrator must get access and run bdf to determine which filesystems are full. There are several steps to decide on how to fix the problems.

Re: HPUX file system error

JASH_2 — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:06:42 GMT

cnu,

Often, I have found, developers etc use their home directory to store their programs and scripts and run them from there. If they fail and core dump, they can leave quite large core files in their home directories. You might try a find and search for core files:-

find /home -name core -print

You could try to find which directory has the most space used by it using du:-
cd /home
du -sk *

Just a couple of thoughts.

Re: HPUX file system error

tr10385 — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:41:23 GMT

Thanx hpux folks.
I could clean up the filesytem with all your valuable tips. system is working fine.