no space error on shutdown

[GraceO]

While doing a reboot of our rp3440 server (HPUX 11i v2), I noticed an lvol4 no space error (not exact error message) scroll by the console while the server was shutting down. When the sytem was back up, /home, which was mounted on lvol4 was at 7%. I checked the rc.log.old file and the OLDsyslog.log files and didn't see any messages that lvol4 was full. (OLDsyslog.log did have a February entry '/dev/vg00/lvol4 file system full' which had been corrected before the reboot.)

My questions are: Could there have been an open file taking up all the space on lvol4 that was cleared up by the reboot? And, is there a shutdown log that would show the error message that scrolled by on the console?

Any information would be greatly appreciated!

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

An unlinked (removed) but open file will not have its disk space released until the last processing using it terminates; i.e. the file's link count reaches zero.

Hence, your own explanation is plausible. After a reboot, the OLDsyslog.log would be the only place to look for the file system full message that occured before the reboot.

Regards!

...JRF...

[GraceO]

Thanks for the quick response. I wanted to make sure I'm checking what I should...I don't know if I'll be able to figure out what happened to run out of space in the first place, but at least I have a possible reason.

[GraceO]

Thanks, again.