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Have already deleted as much log file can like syslog.log and mail.log from /var/adm/syslog
Am wondering if can do any thing for this dir
Code:
/var/ios
/var/stm
/var/vx
Anything can do with /var/adm/wtmp (As I know can do this with single user mode only am not sure )
/var/adm/sw
/var/opt/sanmgr
/var/opt/perf
/var/opt/gcc
/var/opt/wbem
Excuse if am asking silly Que ... as am new on hp-ux and not aware of use of these dir/files
Deleting logfiles usually makes the situation worse -- they're probably still in use so won't be deleted, and will exist on disk until the logger closes them. But they're no longer in the directory after you delete them, preventing you from doing anything to them!
Try restarting your logger to release the deleted files, and don't delete logfiles thereafter -- truncate them. Having it open won't let the logger stop you from doing that.
Thanks !!
have release about 20Mb space by doing so ... it's abruptly increases am not sure why before day it was about 60MB am not sure what happen ...
Have much space free on /usr if can mv and create symlink for any of directory mentioned above that is non critical as per OS term ..
--Shirish
---------- Post updated at 11:19 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:36 AM ----------
Thanks have got the temporary solution have moved 30 MB of SAN archived logs
Your "bdf" and your "du -sk" do not agree. There's about 4 Gigabytes difference. That's ignoring the fact that "du -sk" follows links and can be much higher than "bdf".
You should be using "du -skx" to stop "du" traversing into other filesystems.
If you have been deleting (not nulling) active logs you probably need a reboot.
Beware that some system logging processes stop working completely if you delete their logs. Be prepared to create an empty log with exactly the same permissions as before if you find that a logging process stops working.
Methyl , Thanks for this usefull info about du cmd .
Can I do any thing with my /var/adm/sw dir as near about 2.5 GB utilization by this ..
was wondering if can move it to /usr and create a symlink over here as below
Code:
/var/adm/sw -->> /usr/backup-var/sw
or with any of below dirs ..
/var/ios
/var/stm
/var/vx
Which is less critical as per OS term ..am not aware ..
Not a good idea...Unless you like fighting with funky issues....
That said in there (/var/adm/sw) you will find all the patches installed (and obsoleted, and uninstalled etc...) You may gain space by intellingently doing some cleanup, beware of the risk of not being able to "rollback" removed patches afterward... but very first superseeded patchs are of little risk...
What about /var/adm/syslog? what size are the logs there?
I trim them regularly ( customized by me though - important info in beginning syslog (at boot time) is always kept till next reboot...)
...
There are logs in /var/stm you can clean also and save 10-400 MB...
I have an old 10.20 that makes me sweat regularly (vital old legacy stuff nobody wanted to port : forms 3 with oracle 7.2.3...)
Code:
civ:/var/stm/logs/sys $ ll
total 434840
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220525916 Feb 24 11:29 activity_log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root sys 878 May 5 2010 config.stm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4584 Feb 2 09:02 diaglogd_activity_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5480 Feb 2 09:02 memlogd_activity_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5872 Feb 2 09:02 scan_hw_log
civ:/var/stm/logs/sys $ bdf /var
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol8 921600 555664 344185 62% /var
I only have this unique volume group vg00 in mirror on old SCSI 9GB (all space saving is important...) with all on it.
When I forget to look (thanks for reminding me Hehe...) the system crashes... and this box is not on site but in the countryside (with snow lately and Im on motorcycle...)
I just zero activity_log periodically, So Do it today:
Code:
civ:/var/stm/logs/sys $ ll
total 434840
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220578080 Feb 24 11:37 activity_log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root sys 878 May 5 2010 config.stm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4584 Feb 2 09:02 diaglogd_activity_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5480 Feb 2 09:02 memlogd_activity_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5872 Feb 2 09:02 scan_hw_log
civ:/var/stm/logs/sys $ >activity_log
civ:/var/stm/logs/sys $ r bdf
bdf /var
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol8 921600 338265 547997 38% /var
Look at how fast its growing though:
Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220525916 Feb 24 11:29 activity_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220578080 Feb 24 11:37 activity_log
approx 12k/min
Last edited by vbe; 02-24-2012 at 06:45 AM..
Reason: Addendum ...
Be vary careful when moving things in system partitions because you still need an intact system when you are up single-user.
Regarding /var/adm/sw . The directory /var/adm/sw/save is all the undo information for the patches applied on the system and can be huge. I believe that there is a formal process to "commit" the patches which also means that you cannot roll back those patches. I've never needed to do it.
Still concerned about your /var partition itself. Have you been able to reboot? If it is still like this after a reboot I wonder if there has been a faulty attempt to extend the filesystem.
Also you don't seem to have a /var/opt in your "du" list.
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