"FileSystem Full" or "No Space Available" msg on RedHat EL

[H.Ohkubo]

Hello,

I want to acknowledging the generation of above messages from the output on my RedHat Enterprise Linux ver. 3.0.

It seems not to be output on RedHat EL,
though syslogd is output it to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and dmesg on
HP-UX.

Please teach when there is something a good method!

Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you, H.Ohkubo

[Mark Ellzey]

Hello,

This message means that you have exceeded the size of the filesystem. Usually, some log file has grown very large, or someone has ftp'ed or tar'ed a large file to that filesystem. Hopefully, it's not your root (/) filesystem.

To locate any large files, do the following:

cd /offending_filesystem
du -k | sort -nr | more

This command will generate a list, sorted largest first, of all files in the filesystem. Check out the first few entries in the list, because they will most likely be the offenders. Either remove the files, or move them to a filesystem that has adequate room.

Regards,
Mark

[H.Ohkubo]

Hello, Mark,
Thanks for your reply!

My explanation might have been insufficient... The aim of acknowledging these messages is not unprevention, but the result.

My system observes to the filesystem of important servers, at the use %rate, now.
i.e. (on HP-UX's case)

$binPATH/bdf /offending_filesystem | tail -1 | awk ' { print $(NF-1)}' | sed -e 's/%//' and so on.

I think, there is no necessary for rating base observing to
clients. But, I want to acknowledge result(file system full).

Thank you for your advice,
H.Ohkubo