Re: AIX 3 Hard Disk Full

From: Laurenz Albe (albe_at_culturallNOSPAM.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:01:40 +0000 (UTC)

Lucas <asklucas@gmx.net> wrote:
> I triend the "skulker" command, but didn't change anything. Then I
> tried to list up the longest files and deleted them, this worked out
> fine. The three files /var/spool/mail/root, /var/adm/wtmp,
> /var/adm/ras/errlog, which I deleted, occupied in total 24 megabytes
> of memory. (What are they for?)

I asked you to be careful about what you delete!

/var/adm/wtmp should not be deleted.
There is a FAQ pertaining to this newsgroup, it would have told you
how to truncate the file:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/part1/ Section 1.150

I don't know if it's safe to delete errlog. It's ok to delete root's
mail file.

/var, unlike /tmp, is a directory that contains important files.

You should have asked the question what the files are for BEFORE you
removed them.

The best thing you can do now is
touch /var/adm/wtmp
touch /var/adm/ras/errlog
to recreate the files.

Besides, 24 MB of free space isn't that much.
Are these the largest files that were in your /var directory?
If yes, it's probably a good idea to increase the size of the /var
file system.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe