[SunHELP] Netra X1 Filesystem Full

Mike's List sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Nov 6 13:50:30 CST 2001


You need to mount the 32G partition on /export/home instead of
/export/spare (it's just a mount point) check to see what is in
/export/spare first of course...could be that the Netra contains
32G for /export/home but someone mounted wrong in /export/spare.


- Mike


On 6 Nov 2001, Ben Ricker wrote:

> Weird. Check this out:
> 
> The output of df -k:
> 
> Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0     245679  157478   63634    72%    /
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6    2055463 1016924  976876    52%    /usr
> /proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
> fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
> mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5    2055463   63392 1930408     4%    /var
> swap                 1125576       8 1125568     1%    /var/run
> swap                  102400      16  102384     1%    /tmp
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7    33049606      38 32719072     1%    /export/spare
> 
> The output of format --> partition --> print:
> 
> Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
>   0       root    wm       0 -   128      256.99MB    (129/0/0)     526320
>   1       swap    wu     129 -   643        1.00GB    (515/0/0)    2101200
>   2     backup    wu       0 - 19155       37.27GB    (19156/0/0) 78156480
>   3 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
>   4 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
>   5        var    wm     644 -  1672        2.00GB    (1029/0/0)   4198320
>   6        usr    wm    1673 -  2701        2.00GB    (1029/0/0)   4198320
>   7       home    wm    2702 - 19155       32.01GB    (16454/0/0) 67132320
> 
> 
> Note that home says it has 32GB but it is mounted as '/export/spare'?
> What the heck is that? I had root filled because as of right now, the
> /home partition is a part of /, hence it fills up really quickly. Looks
> like Sun's factory install is messed up? Don't they usually make /home
> huge? I will adjust /etc/vfstab....unless I am courageous and I grow /
> and /usr.....
> 
> Ben Ricker
> System Administrator
> Wellinx.com
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 12:59, Bruce Pullig wrote:
> > Check /dev/rmt for improper use of tar/dump.   I've been able to free a lot 
> > of space before caused by other SysAdmins logging in as root and running:
> > tar cvf /dev/rmt/0nb ./stuff
> > Which will create a huge file, instead of dumping it to tape.
> > 
> > At 12:32 PM 11/6/2001, you wrote:
> > >On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 11:53, Steve Wingate wrote:
> > > > Oooh, I really wouldn't move a binary dir. There has to something else 
> > > you can move. How large is / and what's on it? I'm working quite happily 
> > > with a 100MB /.
> > >
> > >I am not doing that. I called Sun and they were most unhelpful: the tech
> > >did not know that /bin is really linked to /usr/bin.
> > >
> > >I just started going through filesystems figuring out which was mounted
> > >as root and what was not and then finding unneeded files and deleting
> > >them. I freed up 30% of the disk, which is not bad. I should probably
> > >also check the partition table to see if they left any unallocated
> > >space...
> > >
> > >Thanks for all the help!
> > >
> > >Ben Ricker
> > >System Administrator
> > >Wellinx, Inc.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On 06 Nov 2001 10:09:06 -0600
> > > > "Ben Ricker" <bricker at wellinx.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Has anyone ever moved a directory like /bin to another partition and
> > > > > then made a linnk from /bin to the moved directory? I wonder if that
> > > > > will break anything?
> > > > >
> > > > > Ben Ricker
> > > > > System Administrator
> > > > > Wellinx.com
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 09:51, Fletcher, Joe wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Usual place to start checking is /var and further probably /var/adm 
> > > assuming
> > > > > > var in is / and has not been put in a partitin on it's own.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Good hunting.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: Ben Ricker [mailto:bricker at wellinx.com]
> > > > > > Sent: 6 November 2001 15:52
> > > > > > To: Sun Help List
> > > > > > Subject: [SunHELP] Netra X1 Filesystem Full
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My root partition is full on a Netra X1 which was partitioned at the
> > > > > > factory (rather horribly, I might add). I know someone posted the find
> > > > > > command that will allow to sort large files. What was that again (I
> > > > > > searched SunHelp but no joy)?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also, there are a lot of stuff in /bin. How can find out what package
> > > > > > installed a given binary? I tried pkginfo piped through grep but 
> > > came up
> > > > > > empty. I started removing all the "foreign" language support but 
> > > that is
> > > > > > all in /usr, a separate partition.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ben Ricker
> > > > > > System Administrator
> > > > > > Wellinx, Inc.
> > > > > >
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