topic Re: Inode problem? in Operating System - HP-UX

Inode problem?

Michael Gretton — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:11:48 GMT

I have a server with the /var directory full. I have cleaned out some logs that are eating space but I am still not gaining any space on the FS. I remember that this might be an inode release problem. Is there a way to release these inodes without having to reboot?

I am not certain this is the problem. If I have it wrong, pls let me know.

Ooops accidently posted this to databases. If there is a moderator, pls delete that thread. Sorry...

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Inode problem?

Ken Hubnik_2 — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:15:32 GMT

Do you have something writing to /var/tmp so as soon as you clean some space it is being used up by a process writting to /var/tmp.

Re: Inode problem?

Pete Randall — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:16:47 GMT

Mike,

Try "du -sk /var/* |sort -n" to see if you can spot something in the heavy hitter's list. If you can get rid of one big one, you'll be OK until you can deal with it.

Pete

Re: Inode problem?

John Poff — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:35:09 GMT

Hi,

You might have a file that has been deleted but is still being held open by a process. If that has happened your disk space won't be freed up until the process dies. If you have 'lsof' you can run it and see what files each process has open in /var.

JP

Re: Inode problem?

harry d brown jr — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:35:58 GMT

get lsof at
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.64/

and see what files are open then check to see if they show up in those directories. If not, then STOP those processes and magically watch the space come back.

live free or die
harry

Re: Inode problem?

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:27:18 GMT

note the lsof on the porting archive is only compiled for a 32 bit kernel, you may prefer to get the 64 bit version from:
see:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xee1a6049dbb6d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html