I got stuck in a very messy situation yesterday after attempting to resolve a filesystem full issue. The user reported that their filesystem (/var/DWS) was 100% full even after moving few files of sizes 14G, 30G and 50G out of the directory. I checked the filesystem once more after this complaint, and realized that there was a sub-directory named "compressed" within this directory that was the largest within it. I asked them to housekeep it, but they said this directory size was only 6.7G, which was way smaller in size than the total files/directories they moved out of /var/DWS. The filesystem was an ufs mount.
So I suggested to un-mount and re-mount the directory, only to get into more problems, as the person who gave approval to do this, did not properly stop the applications/processes that were accessing this directory. So I could unmount the directory (umount -f /var/DWS, as a normal umount did not work). But after this I could not re-mount the directory, as it throws error "Device busy".
So, I rebooted the server, and then the server could not boot up. It got stuck in a blank grey screen (Like a tv channel that does not have a transmission).
Please throw some light on how to start troubleshooting this issue? Better if there is a solution for this issue?
So when you power up the first thing you should see is the service processor. That will go through diagnostics and then present you with a prompt (unless it's configured to automatically boot).
So what is the last thing you see before the screen goes blank?
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