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

file system full

Tgunawan — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:36:01 GMT

I have hp ux 10.20, with other application on top of it.
Just got problem this station terminated and restart the application.
But after system recover, I run dmesg command and got file system full message.
When I check with bdf none of the Hdd partition shown 100% usage.
Can anybody tell me what to do?

Regards,

Ted

Re: file system full

Pete Randall — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:39:45 GMT

Ted,

This may well have been a temporary condition. Either that or the process that is filling the file system is still running, still has the file open, and thus bdf can't see it. Are there any processes associated with this application that would be writing to this filesystem at this point?

Pete

Re: file system full

Mark Grant — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:42:27 GMT

Teddy,

It probably was full but restarting the application sorted the problem out. I would guess the application created a tempory file that filled up the filesystem and then removed it. This is common practice for tempory files and does not give you the space back until the application closes the file. When you restarted the applciation the space came back.

Re: file system full

T G Manikandan — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:43:26 GMT

dmesg hold all system error messages which could also be history messges.

The file system could have filled some time before and now bdf gives that it is not full.

check for the timestamp of those messages.

If those messges are recent then that application process is creating a huge temporary file on that file system which fills up the space.

you can use lsof to trace that application process.

Re: file system full

Umapathy S — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:45:24 GMT

Ted,
You are telling that after system recover, the dmesg command gave file system full. Track the file system.

Check for any biggest files in that file system and try to run fuser on that.

HTH,
Umapathy

Re: file system full

john korterman — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:53:21 GMT

Hi,
did the restart and recover operation involve booting the machine?
If not, the dmesg message could be old, just stating that at a certain time a file system was full.

just guessing...
regards,
John K.