topic Re: /dev/root file system full in Operating System - HP-UX

/dev/root file system full

Steve Yang_2 — Sat, 24 Aug 2002 03:10:30 GMT

When I was downloading a large file from internet,
I found this error:
vxfs: mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/root file system full (1 block extent)

Netscape hung up and stoped downloading.

I put the file in /home where is enough space to hold the file.

Thanks in advance.

Re: /dev/root file system full

Steve Yang_2 — Sat, 24 Aug 2002 03:14:12 GMT

more info here

# bdf /dev/root
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/root 143360 31121 105225 23%

there are lots of space on /dev/root.

Why is that happening?

Thanks

Re: /dev/root file system full

Patrick Chim — Sat, 24 Aug 2002 03:46:42 GMT

Hi,

Does your 'temporary internet files' setting have been set to store in / directory and so when you are downloading a large file it make / full ?

Regards,
Patrick

Re: /dev/root file system full

harry d brown jr — Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:49:55 GMT

Steve,

Rule # 1

NEVER download files to ANY root filesystem.

Rule # 2

See rule # 1

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When you did the bdf, was it after you stopped netscape or while it was "hung"??

live free or die
harry

Re: /dev/root file system full

Yogeeraj_1 — Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:36:06 GMT

hi,

Do a bdf /
then a bdf /home

Most probably there are not found on the same logical volume.

AS mentioned above, NEVER store personnal files on the root file system.

Also, check your temporary internet files settings in Netscape.

Hope this helps!
Best Regards
Yogeeraj

Re: /dev/root file system full

Steve Yang_2 — Sat, 24 Aug 2002 14:59:23 GMT

How to set Netscape tempfile to another palce? I could not find a menu there.

Thank you so much!

Re: /dev/root file system full

Bill Hassell — Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:51:33 GMT

By default, Netscape will download into the current directory. Most likely, you are logged in as root (first mistake) and probably have / as your home directory (second mistake). To fix the first one, never login as root unless you are performing system administration, always login as an ordinary user.

Even as an ordinary user, when you download a file, never accept the default location for a download. Pick a specific directory and ideally, create a special directory so you'll remember where it is. This is true for any opsystem, whether Unix or PC or Mac, etc.

For the second problem, you need to change root's home directory to something in /home, perhaps /home/root. Then move all files to the new location. / should have no ordinary files.

Re: /dev/root file system full

Michael Tully — Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:49:11 GMT

In regards to having your root filesystem as /dev/root (should be /dev/vg00/lvol3) this needs to be fixed also. This generally can happen after booting into LVM maintenance mode or single-user mode.

# mv /etc/mnttab /etc/mnttab.bak
# mount -a

Check to make sure that /dev/vg00/lvol3 is
set to be mounted on / in your /etc/fstab file

Re: /dev/root file system full

Ulrich Deiters — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:10:20 GMT

One more problem of netscape: It maintains a folder ".netscape" in your home directory (in the root directory, if you use it as superuser), where it keeps its cache. You can set the maximum cache size of netscape via the edit->preferences menu, but netscape feels free to ignore this; i.e., the cache can grow without restriction. So better check if you have such a folder, and how big it is.

Re: /dev/root file system full

Pete Randall — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:59:42 GMT

Steve,

It's the .netscape cache file that fills up the root file system. As soon as the download fails or completes, the problem goes away. That's why your bdf output shows only 23%. You can cure this by doing your download as a user whose $HOME is not in the root file system.

Pete