root Lvol full

[Saurabh_3]

Hi
One of our customer is having A-class server
in which root is full.root lvol is mounted separately. Pls help me. I am unable to find any file which can be removed from root to increase the free space in logical lvol.two days back.The DDS2 conected to the server was replaced. Now when i am trying to take the backup after starting the backup after some time Error comes of file system full.Tell me about Log files which can be removed. Or any dump files to be removed.Root file system is 80 mb.

thanks in Advance

[Patrick Wallek]

I think I know what probably happened. Do the following:

1) Do an 'ioscan -fnC tape' to see what device files the tape is using. They probably changed after the drive was replaced.

2) cd to the /dev/rmt directory. Look in that directory for any tape device files that are unusually large, like more than 50,000,000 bytes. There is probably one there and it is probably the file that the tape drive WAS on before it got changed.

When the tape drive was replaced, the device files probably changed for some reason. If it was /dev/rmt/0m, it is now probably /dev/rmt/1m. So when you did your backup to /dev/rmt/0m, it created a file in /dev/rmt (which is in the / lv) called 0m and it probably filled up your root lvol.

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
Try a
find / -depth -mtime +1 -exec ll ${} \;
That should show you the files, which have been modified last. The big ones should be
among them.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
A better way to find the log files :
find / -depth -type f -name *.log
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

here's another way to get a list of big files:

du -akx / | sort -n

Regards

[Den Luzon]

Hi,

Try this :

#find / -size +10000 -exec ls -l {} \;

it will show you all big files..