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Operating Systems HP-UX Unable to get full FS space after mounting Post 302881246 by rbatte1 on Friday 27th of December 2013 11:39:51 AM
Old 12-27-2013
Welcome

This is a common problem where the space is used by files that have been marked as deleted, but are still open by a process.

I'm guessing that you are using HP-UX, although it would be nice to know for sure.

The output from uname -a would be useful to know.

Basically, you may need to terminate the process holding all the space and then magically, your filesystem will free up the space held open by the process. Of course, finding the process may be difficult. The HPUX version that I have of fuser doesn't have the option for deleted files like AIX has, and I'm struggling with finding the same function in lsof

You could at least use:
Code:
/usr/sbin/fuser -c /home

and then work through the processes, terminating those that are not necessary and checking the space used after each one. This might give you a clue what has gobbled it all up too.

We had a server a while back that wrote a log file in /tmp that would grow slowly, however someone in their wisdom set up a daily cron job to empty /tmp and therefore we couldn't see the file growing - and of course, all the useful logging was unreadable too.


At worst, a reboot is likely to sort you out short-term, but the problem may well come back. It depends if you have a window to do so too.



I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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df(1B)						     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						    df(1B)

NAME
df - display status of disk space on file systems SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/df [-a] [-i] [-t type] [filesystem...] [filename...] DESCRIPTION
The df utility displays the amount of disk space occupied by currently mounted file systems, the amount of used and available space, and how much of the file system's total capacity has been used. If arguments to df are path names, df produces a report on the file system containing the named file. Thus `df .' shows the amount of space on the file system containing the current directory. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -a Report on all filesystems including the uninteresting ones which have zero total blocks (that is, auto-mounter). -i Report the number of used and free inodes. Print ` * ' if no information is available. -t type Report on filesystems of a given type (for example, nfs or ufs). EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using df A sample of output for df looks like: example% df Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on sparky:/ 7445 4714 1986 70% / sparky:/usr 42277 35291 2758 93% /usr Note that used+avail is less than the amount of space in the file system (kbytes); this is because the system reserves a fraction of the space in the file system to allow its file system allocation routines to work well. The amount reserved is typically about 10%; this can be adjusted using tunefs (see tunefs(1M)). When all the space on a file system except for this reserve is in use, only the super-user can allocate new files and data blocks to existing files. When a file system is overallocated in this way, df can report that the file system is more than 100% utilized. FILES
/etc/mnttab List of file systems currently mounted /etc/vfstab List of default parameters for each file system ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
du(1), quot(1M), tunefs(1M), mnttab(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 df(1B)
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