Any way of checking if filesystem was full

[Tim O'Connell]

Hi,

One of our developers was running a program on our test machine last night & it failed at some point. He thinks that the filesystem he was using may have become full. It's not full now as a cleanup job is run every mornong so that could habve removed files older than a certain date. Is there any log which records "File system full". On some flavour of Unix I worked on, there used to br a var/log/console which recorded all messages sent to the console which included any filesystems full. Anything like that on HPUX.

Thanks,

TIm

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Tim,
try:
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

[Fabian Briseño]

Hello Tim.

you can check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

that will tell you what filesystem was full

or you can run the following command:

dmesg

Hope this helps.

[Tim O'Connell]

Thanks

Problem solved. Found message & file system was full. Thanks for the replies. Points assigned.

Many Thanks,

Tim

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Tim

we have a similar utility script that runs every hour and alerts us on any error messages at the kernel level.

hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Bill Hassell]

The other source of error messages to the console is found with the dmesg command. However, this is not a disk log but a kernel memory buffer. So newer messages will roll older messages off the top of the buffer. And of course, this buffer is lost on a reboot. The solution is to write any new dmesg entries into a logfile on disk using something like the sample crontab entry in /usr/newconfig/var/spool/cron/crontab.root. Although a couple of other flavors of Unix use the file "messages", I think that is very misleading, so my crontab entry looks like this:

05,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * /usr/sbin/dmesg - >>/var/adm/dmesg.log

Note the very critical - (minus or dash) that tells dmesg to display only new messages (or nothing is no new messages). The - option also timestamps new messages.

The attached script will monitor filesystems and send notices by email, to syslog and/or notify OpenView ITO.

[Raj D.]

Hi Tim,

You can check this with syslog.log and dmesg.

You will find the vxfs:filesystem full message in syslog.log with timestamp.

If you rebooted the system since the filesystem full message , you can find it in OLDsyslog.log ,

Also you can write a small script to redirect the dmesg messages to any logfile as outlined by Bill,


Cheers,
Raj.

[Tim O'Connell]

Thanks for all the replies. As I've closed the call, I don't seem to be able to allocate points to the last 3 replies.

Thanks,

Tim