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# 1  
Old 11-09-2009
Root filesystem filling up!
Hi all.
New to the forum and new to Unix admin... / filesystem filled up and I can't find where the large files are. Any help will be apppreciated:

Code:
# df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0    8063580 7941745   41200   100%    /
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
swap                 3687032     168 3686864     1%    /var/run
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6    8063580 6509257 1473688    82%    /opt
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s0    285588236 229480788 56107448    81%    /u02
swap                 3836600  149736 3686864     4%    /tmp
/usr/home/oracle     8063580 7941745   41200   100%    /home/oracle
rcwlo-ods10g:/u05/msgdata
                     10490104  175764 10314340     2%    /u05/msgdata
rcworarpt:/u01/arch/vprd2/primary
                     214529640 182823721 31705919    86%    /u01/arch/vprd2/primary
/usr/home/oracle     8063580 7941745   41200   100%    /home/oracle
rcw-it-nas2:/backup  1429328808 732615268 696713540    52%    /u04
/export/home/csa     8063580 7941745   41200   100%    /home/csa
# uname -a
SunOS rcworaprd 5.9 Generic_112233-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R
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I do some of the du-dk commands but nothing huge stands out. Need help asap.
Last edited by pludi; 11-09-2009 at 02:38 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 11-09-2009
Do you have logfiles on the root filesystem? Try running find looking for large files
that were recently modified

Code:
find / -mtime+3 -type f -size +10000 -exec ls -l {} \;

# 3  
Old 11-09-2009
Nothing under / that stands out.
I run the du -ak * | sort -nr | more command from /home/oracle and all I get is about 140 MB used space. The / fs is 8 GB. when I run that command from / I get a ton of /proc output. Could there be anything like a process holding onto something in there?
# 4  
Old 11-09-2009
Hi,
You have to check the filesystem hosted path and maximum used space in %
using the below command

df -k . | sort +4rn
The above command will listout the maximum used path and filesystem

Then you have check the maximum used filesystem path and check which file used more space in the directory using below command df -k . | sort +4rn

Then you have to ziped the maximum size file if its not current active processed file.



Thanks
# 5  
Old 11-09-2009
I figured it out.

Apparently some Oracle dbf files were created under a new directory that was one level below a mount point:

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/u01/arc/server1
/u01/arc/server2

where server1 is it's own mounted filesystem so they created a directory called server2 but it's not mounted so it created it under /.

This slowly filled up / as data was written to the db.

My du -ak * | sort -nr command eventually led to the discovery, I just needed to sift through all of the output to find it.

Thanks to all who assisted.
 
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