[SunHELP] E3500 / partition is getting full

[Magnus Abrante]

/proc in Solaris is not a regular filesystem, its an interface to the 
kernel, and the things you see under /proc are objects which exists in
the kernel memory.

If you do a du or ls under /proc, some directories might indeed turn up as 
quite large, but thats because the process which they represents have 
allocated a lot of virtual memory.

There are a couple of commans which uses the /proc fs to gather information,
such as ps and all the proc tools (those under /usr/proc/bin) among others.

I belive that you have something else which is allocating your diskspace,
if you do not have a separete /var partition i'ld start looking for big
files there.

Kind of off topic, but since we are talking about the procfs i can mention
that i happend to remove the /proc entry from /etc/vfstab on a machine
once, that gaved a lot of intresting problems and some commands (like ps)
started to behave very strange ;)

best regards,

        //Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my employer */


> Hi,
> 
> df -k shows E3500 / partition is 94% full. I searched for files to delete
> but nothing i can. I think /proc is creating problem, it seems very big.
> Before i faced to same problem on another server and i had to reboot it,
> after reboot df showed that / fs is half of previous. I think reboot is
> cleaning something like it does for /tmp and i think that is /proc. 
> 
> There are 67 users and the uptime is 110 days for the server. 
> 
> I wonder if i have any other solution rather than reboot. 
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 
> 
> 
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