root file system is full

[Jerry Friend_1]

Help me please! I am jack of all trades master of none, systems admin. We have a K100 HPUX 11.0 that we just migrated from recently and something has caused the root to fill up.

I have attached a bdf and du output. I don't know what to look for or where. Any help will be appreciated.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi Jerry,

82045 /import/esemain2/var/dump

That is your problem. Nothing in that directory seems to have a filesystem mounted. To confirm it do

#cd /import/esemain2/var/dump
#bdf .

It should / as the mounted directory.

Someone dumped files into this directory thereby filling your root filesystem.

I would suggest you move the stuff under esemain2 to some filesystem like /dump or so, create a filesystem and mount it at /import/esemain2 and move it back.

-Sri

[Abdul Rahiman]

Jus an additional comment, could have been soemone copying files into your NFS mounted directory with a wrong dir. name.

Instead of using /import/esemain1/var/dump, someone used /import/esemain2 which instead created the whole dir. structure under root there by filling up the / filesystem.

The user probably would need to re-copy the whole dir. since the previous dir. would be useless since there wan't much space to copy anyway.

[Jerry Friend_1]

Ok... I think I figured out what happened now. We just migrated from a K100 (formerly esemain1) to a k460 (formerly esemain2) and my DBA had modified a backup script to backup her database and then move it using NFS. I think that she forgot to diable the cron job running her script, and since the two machines hostnames changed and the NFS setup as well, well... you guys figured it out before I did.

Thanks very much.

[Joseph Loo]

hi jerry,

in appreciation of their help, please assign points accordingly.

regards.