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Old 04-27-2001
Thank you 98_1LE....
Please help required urgently...
We are getting error message in SUN... Please give solution

ERROR MESSAGE:
NOTICE: alloc: /var: file system full

Output of command "df -k" in our system is...

Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 57143 14357 37076 28% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 288855 210436 49539 81% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 785750 704690 2490 100% /var
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 153951 96710 41851 70% /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 480919 293463 139366 68% /usr1
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 2888885 2276451 323554 88% /usr2
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 57143 30770 20663 60% /usr3
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 1050702 979629 0 100% /usr4
swap 356392 3256 353136 1% /tmp


You may notice /var directory is 100% full. Inside /var directory...
-rw------T 1 root other 241172480 Apr 25 19:21 swapadd
above mentioned "swapadd" is the huge file occupying /var directory.. actually what is that... can we delete that file...


Please help....
Thank you...


[Edited by wipro fluid power on 04-28-2001 at 05:41 AM]
 

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lufslist(1M)															      lufslist(1M)

NAME
lufslist - list configuration of a boot environment SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/lufslist [-l error_log] [-o outfile] BE_name [-X] DESCRIPTION
The lufslist command is part of a suite of commands that make up the Live Upgrade feature of the Solaris operating environment. See live_upgrade(5) for a description of the Live Upgrade feature. The lufslist command lists the configuration of a boot environment (BE). The output contains the disk slice (file system), file system type, and file system size for each BE mount point. The following is an example of lufslist output. # lufslist BE_name Filesystem fstype size(Mb) Mounted on ------------------------------------------------------------------ /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 swap 512.11 - /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s3 ufs 3738.29 / /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s4 ufs 510.24 /opt File system type can be ufs, swap, or vxfs, for a Veritas file system. Under the Filesystem heading can be a disk slice or a logical device, such as a disk metadevice used by volume management software. The lufslist command requires root privileges. OPTIONS
The lufslist command has the following options: -l error_log Error and status messages are sent to error_log, in addition to where they are sent in your current environment. -o outfile All command output is sent to outfile, in addition to where it is sent in your current environment. -X Enable XML output. Characteristics of XML are defined in DTD, in /usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/lu_cli.dtd.<num>, where <num> is the version number of the DTD file. OPERANDS
BE_name Name of the BE for which file systems are to be reported. You cannot specify a BE that is involved in another Live Upgrade operation. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. FILES
/etc/lutab list of BEs on the system /usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/lu_cli.dtd.<num> Live Upgrade DTD (see -X option) ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWluu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
lu(1M), luactivate(1M), lucancel(1M), lucompare(1M), lucreate(1M), lucurr(1M), ludelete(1M), ludesc(1M), lumake(1M), lumount(1M), lure- name(1M), lustatus(1M), luupgrade(1M), lutab(4), attributes(5), live_upgrade(5) SunOS 5.10 24 Jan 2002 lufslist(1M)
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