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Operating Systems AIX Running out of space Post 302607475 by vbe on Wednesday 14th of March 2012 01:49:15 PM
Old 03-14-2012
I will ask a simple question ( or two Smilie ):
Are you root on this aix box?
A you learning aix, and so using smit?
Did you do alot of smit/smitty today?
If so you shoulg think to purge periodically your smit.log file...

Under AIX / is not a big file system:
Code:
n12:/root $ df -k   
Filesystem    1024-blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4           262144    141620   46%     3232    10% /

You can see it is used at 50% of 200 MB, on that /root uses almost a half...
the trouble with root filesystem id that it hold /dev
Any wrong command like archiving to tape on the wrong or inexistent device will create a file e.g. like /dev/wrongtape that can depending what you did, be huge...
/dev should be less than 2MB... if not there is junk in it...
 

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PIVOT_ROOT(8)						       System Administration						     PIVOT_ROOT(8)

NAME
pivot_root - change the root filesystem SYNOPSIS
pivot_root new_root put_old DESCRIPTION
pivot_root moves the root file system of the current process to the directory put_old and makes new_root the new root file system. Since pivot_root(8) simply calls pivot_root(2), we refer to the man page of the latter for further details. Note that, depending on the implementation of pivot_root, root and cwd of the caller may or may not change. The following is a sequence for invoking pivot_root that works in either case, assuming that pivot_root and chroot are in the current PATH: cd new_root pivot_root . put_old exec chroot . command Note that chroot must be available under the old root and under the new root, because pivot_root may or may not have implicitly changed the root directory of the shell. Note that exec chroot changes the running executable, which is necessary if the old root directory should be unmounted afterwards. Also note that standard input, output, and error may still point to a device on the old root file system, keeping it busy. They can easily be changed when invoking chroot (see below; note the absence of leading slashes to make it work whether pivot_root has changed the shell's root or not). OPTIONS
-V, --version Display version information and exit. -h, --help Display help text and exit. EXAMPLES
Change the root file system to /dev/hda1 from an interactive shell: mount /dev/hda1 /new-root cd /new-root pivot_root . old-root exec chroot . sh <dev/console >dev/console 2>&1 umount /old-root Mount the new root file system over NFS from 10.0.0.1:/my_root and run init: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up # for portmap # configure Ethernet or such portmap # for lockd (implicitly started by mount) mount -o ro 10.0.0.1:/my_root /mnt killall portmap # portmap keeps old root busy cd /mnt pivot_root . old_root exec chroot . sh -c 'umount /old_root; exec /sbin/init' <dev/console >dev/console 2>&1 SEE ALSO
chroot(1), pivot_root(2), mount(8), switch_root(8), umount(8) AVAILABILITY
The pivot_root command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux August 2011 PIVOT_ROOT(8)
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