/usr file system geting full

[Vishal_1980]

Hello Team Good morning to all of you,

We are running SAP at the front end.The /usr size is 6 gig.

Now the problem is that i am facing the issue of /usr f/s geting full almost 95 to 100%.

we donst have online jfs here. In the SAP application the tracing & looging is enable thats why the application writes the 

log in the OS it self ,now the problem is that what files need to be moved or delet .

Please suggest the solution

[Patrick Wallek]

cd into the /usr directory and then do a 'du -ks * | sort -n' to look for the largest directory in /usr.  Once you find it cd into that directory and do the du command again until you find something that can be cleaned up.  It could be a large file in a directory or a bunch of smaller files that add up to a large amount.

[Bill Hassell]

Hi,

Welcome to the HP Community forums.

From your Facebook post in HP-UX, we see that /usr is 50% filled with the SAP installation.

Do you know if SAP is creating logs in /usr/SAP?

If true, what is the path to these logs?

Can you post the output from: vgdisplay vg00?

This will show if there is any unused space that you add to /usr.

[Vishal_1980]

# vgdisplay vg00
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name                     /dev/vg00
VG Write Access             read/write
VG Status                   available
Max LV                      255
Cur LV                      11
Open LV                     11
Max PV                      16
Cur PV                      1
Act PV                      1
Max PE per PV               4465
VGDA                        2
PE Size (Mbytes)            64
Total PE                    4455
Alloc PE                    3966
Free PE                     489
Total PVG                   0
Total Spare PVs             0
Total Spare PVs in use      0
VG Version                  1.0
VG Max Size                 4465g
VG Max Extents              71440

this is the out put of the vgdisplay vg00:

My concern is we cant take a downtime as it is the bussy system in production , what should i do to free the space & what should be the recomended size of the /usr is SAP application is used ....pleas suggest

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@Bill Hassell wrote:

Hi,

Welcome to the HP Community forums.

From your Facebook post in HP-UX, we see that /usr is 50% filled with the SAP installation.

Do you know if SAP is creating logs in /usr/SAP?

If true, what is the path to these logs?

Can you post the output from: vgdisplay vg00?

This will show if there is any unused space that you add to /usr.

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[Vishal_1980]

Thanks Bill sir ,once again ...yes the log location is on :-
/usr/sap/RPS/log & /usr/sap/trans/log.....& one more thing to add is that we are facing the same issue in all the location.....& all these are production boxes

[Vishal_1980]

Sir ,i am getting confuse about the /usr & the /usr/sap/trans/log ,/usr/sap/RPS ...cause i deleted the unwanted files like old logs & some old application binaries ...which were of the size 20 to 25 gigs from both the location i.e /usr/sap/trans/log & /usr/sap/RPS still the /usr is showing 98% ..please advice ....

[Dennis Handly]

>I deleted the unwanted files like old logs ... still the /usr is showing 98%

If you deleted logs that were still open (modified recently), these files won't be freed until the program is finished.

You can use lsof to find files with "zero" links.

[Vishal_1980]

no manual entry for lsof

[Dennis Handly]

>no manual entry for lsof

You need to download it from the Porting Center:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Networking/Unknown-process-holds-TCP-9000/m-p/6468820#M56636

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/how-to-use-lsof-to-find-files/m-p/6449894