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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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mkdevmaps(1M)						  System Administration Commands					     mkdevmaps(1M)

NAME
mkdevmaps - make device_maps entries SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/mkdevmaps DESCRIPTION
The mkdevmaps command writes to standard out a set of device_maps(4) entries describing the system's frame buffer, audio, and removable media devices. The mkdevmaps command is used by the init.d(4) scripts to create or update the /etc/security/device_maps file. Entries are generated based on the device special files found in /dev. For the different categories of devices, the mkdevmaps command checks for the following files under /dev: audio /dev/audio, /dev/audioctl, /dev/sound/... tape /dev/rst*, /dev/nrst*, /dev/rmt/... floppy /dev/diskette, /dev/fd*, /dev/rdiskette, /dev/rfd* removable disk /dev/dsk/c0t?d0s?, /dev/rdsk/c0t?d0s? frame buffer /dev/fb ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Obsolete | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
allocate(1), bsmconv(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
mkdevmaps might not be supported in a future release of the Solaris operating system. SunOS 5.10 8 Oct 2003 mkdevmaps(1M)
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