/ file system full

[ramirezfj]

Hi all,
I've a big problem because I can't login as root on a HP-UX 10.20 machine (even via serial console) because it says that / file system is full. What can I do ? (I can't shutdown correctly the machine because I can't login). Can't connect via telnet, ftp, ssh, etc... because file system full.

Need Help, Please

Many Thanks in Advance !!!

 

[unixqueen]

I would try powering the machine off and boot into single user, when given the prompt to interrupt within ten seconds.
At the ISL prompt, type hpux -is
Then clear the space from there. If you can't find the cause, try looking in /dev to make sure that you havn't written to device that doesn't exist.

Clare

 

[mariocq]

First of all happy new year.

Try what unixqueen has said to you. In case it fails you can boot from recovery CD and open a recovery shell. Look in /var/adm/crash to see if there is there any core file.

I hope this help.

 

[ramirezfj]

Many Thanks for both, I am going to try into single mode.

Thanks and Happy New Year

 

[Genka]

try this command to show you all the files in / more then 10Megs after you login
Find . -size +10000000c > /tmp/files10m