inode problem? how do I tell what is filling / ?

[bi]

HELP!

I think I have an inode problem on my SPARC E450 with Solaris 7.

A bdf shows the root filesystem is full, but there aren't any files that appear to be filling the filesystem.

I've heard of inode problems filling up a filesystem, but I don't know how to resolve it, short of booting.

Any ideas????

Thanks.

 

[sendhilk]

How bout a filesystem check on the root filesystem?

 

[bi]

Thanks for replying.

I tried doing an fsck, but in single user mode, the system thinks that / is an NFS filesystem (it isn't). Also, the same goes for /opt and /usr.

root was at 100% for at least two days. I still don't know what caused it to go from about 16% full on one day to 31% on another, to 100% the day after that. Unfortunately, it got to 100% at 3 a.m. when no one should have been on the system and no processes should have been running.

Am I going to have to reinstall, do you think?

 

[mikeclark]

Have a look at /etc/vfstab file and see how the partitians are defined. (should be ufs )
Also look for links (maybe a data area has become linked to the / filesystem and has filled it up. Also check for log files ( /var/adm/ and /var/log/ ) but I can't see that filling up the partitian in a couple of days.

 

[sureshp]

Does any scripts are running in the background or through cron? It may create more log files or core dumps which occupy large space.
Did u try the find command to check the large files in your root file system

#find / -mount -size 50000c -print

check out for the files larger than around 50mb and verify those files.