Root file system is full

[anand_51]

Hi All,
Root file system in one of our rx4640 is full now.we are unable login in to that server. It is a trusted system also.Is there any way to login?

[Peter Godron]

Anand,
please see:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=726204

[Sundar_7]

I am afriad not. In most of the cases, only way is to reset the system from the GSP, interrupt the ISL and boot in single user mode, clean up the root and boot in multi-user mode.

This is ofcourse, assuming no one else has a old root session that can be used.

But I have a work around if you have Openview Operations Agent running in the system.

[Ruben Tapia_2]

Hi:

There are 2 options (maybe more but almos i know 2), one is try to conect on single user and then delete files, if you can't with this, login on server with rescue CD and then mount FS and delete all that you need.

Ruben.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Probably not. You will probably have to shutdown (which may literally mean pulling the plug) and then bring the system up in single-user mode. You will then be logged in as root with /stand and / mounted and can clean up the problem. A very common cause of this is the crash of a process whose CWD is in the root filesystem. The resulting core file might fill the filesystem.

In any event, it's a good idea to have a daemon or cron job that checks for a nearly full / filesystem and takes some sort of action before you get to your present state.

[anand_51]

thank u for ur suggests