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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory file system is full : But df -k shows space available Post 25114 by geraldwilson on Thursday 25th of July 2002 12:39:58 AM
Old 07-25-2002
file system is full : But df -k shows space available

Dear Experts,

We are using Digital Unix 4.0d on Alpha DS-20 E.
/var/adm/messages showed the following error

Jul 24 19:58:37 cbehotbill2 vmunix: /BSCSprod: write failed, file system is full
Jul 24 19:58:38 cbehotbill2 last message repeated 2 times

But df -k showed
BSCS_dmn#BSCSprod 10297944 972004 8644656 11% /BSCSprod


Why has this error occured and wht is the remedy for this .


Regds
Gerald Wilson
 

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strclean(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      strclean(1M)

NAME
strclean - STREAMS error logger cleanup program SYNOPSIS
strclean [-a age] [-d logdir] DESCRIPTION
strclean is used to clean up the STREAMS error logger directory on a regular basis (for example, by using cron. By default, all files with names matching error.* in /var/adm/streams that have not been modified in the last three days are removed. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -a age The maximum age in days for a log file can be changed using the -a option. -d logdir A directory other than /var/adm/streams can be specified using the -d option. EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample of using the strclean command. This example has the same result as running strclean with no arguments: example% strclean -d /var/adm/streams -a 3 FILES
/var/adm/streams/error.* ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cron(1M), strerr(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
strclean is typically run from cron on a daily or weekly basis. SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 strclean(1M)
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