If so, /tmp is not a filesystems on a disk, but instead is using memory. You effectively consumed all available free memory when you filled up /tmp, so there was no memory to fork of a new processes. Your SA has sufficient privileges to use the reserved space to run commands: removing your files.
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.
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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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.
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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?
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/ 5GB
/home 1GB
/boot 100MB
swap 2GB
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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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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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