fs size

[rehaanali]

Hi All,
can any one answer this
can we increase the file system size if it is 100% used if yes is it the regular chfs command if no why not what to do in this case
thanks in advance

 

[ogniemi]

if /tmp is not full you can increase an fs using chfs cmd...

 

[rehaanali]

hi ogniemi

thanks for the help
but if /tmp is full then apart from deleting the files is there any alternative

Thanks
Rehaan.

 

[HelloNair]

If you can't delete files manually, then you can run skulker which cleans up /tmp to some extend.

 

[khalidaaa]

Check chfs man page for any further precaution:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds1/chfs.htm

Regards,
Khalid

 

[unixfreak]

rehaanali said:

> Hi All,
> can any one answer this
> can we increase the file system size if it is 100% used if yes is it the regular chfs command if no why not what to do in this case
> thanks in advance

It would be a lot easier if you used punctuation but yes, chfs -a size=+<size> /fs will increase your filesystem.


ogniemi said:

> if /tmp is not full you can increase an fs using chfs cmd...

Huh? How does /tmp have anything to do with chfs?

And /tmp can usually be cleared out but where did this comment come from?

And my, it's frustrating there's no easy way of quoting posts...

 

[HelloNair]

Unixfreak,

The chfs command in AIX uses /tmp while changing any filesystem size. It creates a temporary a file and deletes it during the operation. If there are no free blocks or inodes available in /tmp, chfs command fails.

You can see this by tracing the process using a truss command.

The usage of /tmp might be encoded in the program and I am not sure how to override it. I couldn't see any environment variable referring to /tmp as well

 

[unixfreak]

Ok, I don't tend to fill up tmp and anything in there should be deletable anyway.