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Thank you 98_1LE....
Please help required urgently...
We are getting error message in SUN... Please give solution

ERROR MESSAGE:
NOTICE: alloc: /var: file system full

Output of command "df -k" in our system is...

Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 57143 14357 37076 28% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 288855 210436 49539 81% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 785750 704690 2490 100% /var
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 153951 96710 41851 70% /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 480919 293463 139366 68% /usr1
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 2888885 2276451 323554 88% /usr2
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 57143 30770 20663 60% /usr3
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 1050702 979629 0 100% /usr4
swap 356392 3256 353136 1% /tmp


You may notice /var directory is 100% full. Inside /var directory...
-rw------T 1 root other 241172480 Apr 25 19:21 swapadd
above mentioned "swapadd" is the huge file occupying /var directory.. actually what is that... can we delete that file...


Please help....
Thank you...


[Edited by wipro fluid power on 04-28-2001 at 05:41 AM]

Solaris does not swap in /var, unless someone has made a static swap file there and it will not grow in size. Please post the results of the command:

Code:

df -k

and:

Code:

file /var/your_file.T

replacing your_file with the name of the actual file in question.