CMS error - Drive is 80% full

[ke4qfp]

I hope someone can help me with this. Our CMS is out of support and we are in the process of trying to get approval for an upgrade. Avaya will not come out even if we agree to pay them. We have an error message on the backup saying "drive 80% full". Does anyone know how to move some files off? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[multibus2]

If it's the / (root) partition which is 80% full it could be mail file or a log file The favourites are /var/mail/root or /var/adm/messages

The /var/mail/root file can just be deleted however if the mails relate to a an issue you should deal with this otherwise it will grow again. The /var/adm/messages file should be looked at first and again deal with any issues then it can be purged with echo>/var/adm/messages don't just delete it as you will end up with an unreferenced file. If it's not these it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack however du -k |pg will list all files and there usage, what you are looking for are large files or a large number of files which seem to be out of place.

 

[ke4qfp]

Thanks so much. We're going to try this. If I need additional help, I'll get back to you.

 

[4merAvaya]

Try rebooting the CMS. There are several 'tmp' files that keep growing. Rebooting clears these files. It's a good practice to reboot the CMS monthly.

Kevin

 

[portcity]

Any Unix server should have a scheduled reboot. Depending upon number of agents and simultaneous supervisor logins 1-3 months. Multibus2 is right on in removing mail files. I would just remove the entire mail directory. Who uses CMS mail.

A second suggestion is to remove core dumps. These are extremly large files. login as root and at the root directory type: find . -name core -print

then remove the core files