Hardware Consequences of the / partition getting full

[Adeel Zia]

We have a HP-UX 11.11i installed on our HP rp7420, the / partition got full, our system ram also got deconfigured it dimm 0A&0B, i would like to ask u was it due to the / partition size increase that the hardware i.e RAM got corrupted, can there be such scenarios, software corrupting the hardware???

[Dennis Handly]

>can there be such scenarios, software corrupting the hardware?

Not in this case.  Decades ago I've heard of disk access patterns causing excessive wear on heads or causing the drive to walk across the room and fall into a hole where the floor tiles weren't replaced.  But not wearing out RAM.

I suppose you could have had RAM errors that got logged filling up /?

[Adeel Zia]

Dennis, the / partition got full due to some oracle dumps were tried to stored on it and it got full.... now i want to know can this cause hardware corruption???

[Dennis Handly]

>I want to know can this cause hardware corruption?

No.  The sysadmin mistake won't cause the RAM to fail.

[Adeel Zia]

Ok one last thing

tell me the possible reasons for the "DIMM" getting "HW DECONF"???

[Dennis Handly]

>tell me the possible reasons for the "DIMM" getting "HW DECONF"?

Too many single bit errors.

Did you have any hardware crashes with double bit errors?