System Administration Guide

A 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. See "How to Find and Delete core Files" to remove core files.