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Oracle Solaris Administration: Common Tasks     Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library
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About This Book

1.  Locating Information About Oracle Solaris Commands

2.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview)

3.  Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)

4.  Booting and Shutting Down an Oracle Solaris System

5.  Working With Oracle Configuration Manager

6.  Managing Services (Overview)

7.  Managing Services (Tasks)

8.  Using the Fault Manager

9.  Managing System Information (Tasks)

10.  Managing System Processes (Tasks)

11.  Monitoring System Performance (Tasks)

12.  Managing Software Packages (Tasks)

13.  Managing Disk Use (Tasks)

14.  Scheduling System Tasks (Tasks)

15.  Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks)

16.  Managing the System Console, Terminal Devices, and Power Services (Tasks)

17.  Managing System Crash Information (Tasks)

18.  Managing Core Files (Tasks)

19.  Troubleshooting System and Software Problems (Tasks)

20.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous System and Software Problems (Tasks)

What to Do If Rebooting Fails

What to Do If You Forgot the Root Password or Problem That Prevents System From Booting

What to Do If a System Hang Occurs

What to Do If a File System Fills Up

File System Fills Up Because a Large File or Directory Was Created

A TMPFS File System Is Full Because the System Ran Out of Memory

What to Do If File ACLs Are Lost After Copy or Restore

Index

What to Do If a File System Fills Up

When the root (/) file system or any other file system fills up, you will see the following message in the console window:

.... file system full

There are several reasons why a file system fills up. The following sections describe several scenarios for recovering from a full file system. For information about how to routinely clean out old and unused files to prevent file systems from becoming too full, see Chapter 13, Managing Disk Use (Tasks).

File System Fills Up Because a Large File or Directory Was Created

Reason Error Occurred
How to Fix the Problem
Someone accidentally copied a file or directory to the wrong location. This also happens when an application crashes and writes a large core file into the file system.
Log in as superuser and use the ls -tl command in the specific file system to identify which large file is newly created and remove it. For information about removing core files, see How to Find and Delete core Files.

A TMPFS File System Is Full Because the System Ran Out of Memory

Reason Error Occurred
How to Fix the Problem
This can occur if TMPFS is trying to write more than it is allowed or some current processes are using a lot of memory.
For information about recovering from tmpfs-related error messages, see the tmpfs(7FS) man page.