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:
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.
Hi all,
My disk space is 100% full.
df -k <dir> -> 100%
One of my debug files consume huge amount of space and i want to remove the same to start off fresh debugs.
However i'm unable to remove the file giving out the following error message:
rm -f debug.out22621
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one of my servers / was full by 100% i cleard some space, now though i have
enough space on / partition still df is showing disk usage as 100% am not able to create any single txt file ? why so ? (3 Replies)
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My Solaris 8 firewall server is getting full on the / filesystem. I don't know which one should I delete. I think there's no more to delete on the file like logs or temp file.
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/ 5GB
/home 1GB
/boot 100MB
swap 2GB
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Hi,
Is there any chance that a file system that mounted on the server becomes read only when the space in that file system becomes full?
Regards,
Sreejith (9 Replies)
Hello,
This is RHEL 5.7. swap is almost full, but I am not sure, what to release and how to release space. This is production server so I would like to try all possible options before reboot.
# top
top - 00:18:26 up 327 days, 7:01, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.21, 0.18
Tasks: 782 total, ... (7 Replies)
i want to create 1 script to monitor 1 particular filesystem out of the diferent filesystems. if disk space of that particular filesystem increases by 80% it sends an alert mail to an email id
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fitset
fitset(8) System Manager's Manual fitset(8)Name
fitset - determine if subset fits on a system
Syntax
fitset [ -d ] [ root-path ]
Description
The utility is used to determine if the files in a software subset will fit on a system.
Subset inventory records are read from the standard input. For each record, the space required to install the file described in that record
is deducted from the available free space on the file system to which it would be installed. Only currently mounted UFS file systems are
used in the computations. Space requirements for files already on the disk will be modified to account for the size of the resident copy.
After all records have been read, the free space computed for all file systems is checked. If the space required to install the files would
cause any file system to be more than 90% full, returns an exit status of -1.
The utility uses to size all subsets before attempting to install them. The root-path argument is the pathname of the top directory for
the hierarchy into which the files are going to be installed. If no root-path is specified, the directory '/' is assumed.
Options-d Enable debugging. This will make print voluminous status information on standard output. This information is the initial file system
statistics, the file system location of the file from each input record and the statistics for the file system after the space
required to install the file has been deducted.
Restrictions
NFS mounts are ignored. If software would be installed to an NFS mounted directory, it is sized against the file system containing the NFS
mount point.
The program does not detect the use of symbolic links in paths to root-path or any of the mount points. This can cause to size a subset
incorrectly if root-path is a symbolic link or a symbolic link exists in the path of any of the pathnames used with the command to mount
local file systems.
Examples
To determine if a particular subset will fit on the system, redirect the contents of the subset inventory file into For example:
fitset < /usr/etc/subsets/ULTUUCP400.inv
To determine if the same subset will fit in a hierarchy rooted at the command would be:
fitset /var/tmp/root < /usr/etc/subsets/ULTUUCP400.inv
Diagnostics
fitset: root path must be absolute
A relative pathname was specified for root-path. This path must be absolute.
fitset: cannot stat root-path (error message)
The root-path cannot be accessed. The error message provides more information.
fitset: root-path is not a directory.
Either root-path is not a directory or it is a symbolic link to something which is not a directory.
Files
Subset inventory files
See Alsostl_inv(5), setld(8)
Guide to Preparing Software for Distribution on ULTRIX Systems
fitset(8)