Quick & Easy ?

[Charles Harris]

Hi,

I was wondering what the easiest way of checking if a filesystem has recently been changed, specificaly a size increase.

Any suggestions warmly received as ever!!

Cheers,

-ChaZ-

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

I think the easiest way is to check

# ls -la /dev/vg00

and look at the time/date of the devfiles.

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[Charles Harris]

Thanks for the replay, It's monday morning after all!! - I've obviously lost the plot today!

I was wondering if there was any way of dumping superblock(s) or any specific vxfs logs and checking for changes?
I realy need to identify the change, to see if a filesystem has been increased.

Thanks again,


-ChaZ-

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
another way coould be to check the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for messages from the LVM subsystem, each command is looged there.

Massimo

[Charles Harris]

Thanks Massimo,

Unfortunately, some cowboy nuked the syslog to create some free space. Not a bad place to start looking though!

Cheers,


-ChaZ-

[Keely Jackson]

Hi Chaz

You could check the sam log, assuming they used sam of course.

Cheers
Keely

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

The easiest way is to use PerfView. If you have the scopeux Measureware collector process running collecting stats this includes filesystem sizes - and you can simply run perfview, do a graph of any lvol or filesystem and display its size for the last 3 months, and you will see if its increasing or not.

[Charles Harris]

Thanks to everyone for all of the useful suggestions, my brain is obviously running a little cold this morning!

Cheers,


-ChaZ-