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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Disk Space full Post 302576840 by admin_xor on Saturday 26th of November 2011 05:48:28 PM
Old 11-26-2011
This is a classic example of what happens when you run out of system resources like memory. The shell cannot create another process ( fork ) and thus you are restricted to the built-in commands provided by the shell you are using.

You copied the large file in /tmp which is tmpfs and resides on virtual memory. Dumping files in /tmp means consuming virtual memory. In turn, less room for other processes.

In this case, here is what you could do:
Code:
cd /tmp; echo *; >large_file

All of the commands are shell built-in (work in bourne and korn shells) and shell does not need to fork another process. So, cd lets you in the /tmp directory, echo lets you see the files in that and figure out the name of the file, > brings the size of the file down to zero solving your problem.
 

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snmpdf(1M)						  System Administration Commands						snmpdf(1M)

NAME
snmpdf - get a listing of disk space usage on a remote machine by means of SNMP SYNOPSIS
/usr/sfw/bin/snmpdf [common options] [-Cu] agent DESCRIPTION
The snmpdf command is a networked verison of the df(1M) command. It checks the disk space on the remote machine by examining the HOST- RESOURCES-MIB's hrStorageTable or the UCD-SNMP-MIB's dskTable. By default, the hrStorageTable is preferred, as it typically contains more information than the dskTable. However, the -Cu argument can be passed to snmpdf to force the usage of dskTable. The agent operand identifies a target SNMP agent, which is instrumented to monitor specified objects. At its simplest, the agent specifica- tion consists of a host name or an IPv4 address. In this situation, the command attempts communication with the agent using UDP/IPv4 to port 161 of the target host. See the snmpcmd(1M) manual page for a full list of the possible formats for agent. See the snmpd.conf(4) manual page for guidance on setting up dskTable using the disk directive in the snmpd.conf file. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: common options See snmpcmd(1M) for a list of possible values for common options, as well as their descriptions. -Cu Forces the command to use dskTable in UCD-SNMP-MIB instead of the default to determine the storage information. Generally, the default use of hrStorageTable in HOST-RESOURCES-MIB is preferred because it usually contains more information than dskTable. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Obtaining Disk Usage of a Remote System The following command returns a display of the disk usage of a remote system. Description size (kB) Used Available Used% / 7524587 2186910 5337677 29% /proc 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab 0 0 0 0% /var/run 1223088 32 1223056 0% /tmp 1289904 66848 1223056 5% /cache 124330 2416 121914 1% /vol 0 0 0 0% Real Memory 524288 447456 76832 85% Swap Space 1420296 195192 1225104 13% ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsmcmd | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ EXIT STATUS
0 Successful completion. 1 A usage syntax error. A usage message is displayed. Also used for timeout errors. 2 An error occurred while executing the command. An error message is displayed. SEE ALSO
df(1M), snmpcmd(1M), snmp.conf(4), snmpd.conf(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 20 Jan 2004 snmpdf(1M)
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