NOTICE: alloc: /export/home: file system full 2

[netmind5109]

I have a sun Ultra II and the system complains of being out of space in /export/home. I have removed many large files from /export/home and I still have no space. This morning I booted single user and did fsck -y on all files systems and /export/home showed lots of free blocks. When I reboot multi-user again I see no space. One question I have is that the file system in question is remotely mounted from another machine could that be the problem?? The output of df -k follows:

Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 962983 783568 83125 91% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 2722085 2390102 59783 98% /opt
swap 636496 16 636480 1% /tmp
/dev/md/dsk/d0 24932348 18676451 3762667 84% /tdce
/dev/dsk/c1t4d0s6 4053581 2081615 1566616 58% /usr/local
/dev/dsk/c1t4d0s7 4262591 3894096 0 100% /export/home
/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s6 5066129 4171718 793089 85% /nmmd
/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s7 3248340 322123 2861251 11% /nmmd/sablime
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s6 3935284 2936418 605346 83% /home

 

[Chapter11]

Perhaps you'd be better off asking in a Solaris forum.

 

[Yegolev]

Yes, otherwise you'll get AIX advice, like this: unmount/mount the fs. Or, use fuser to find the process that is holding it open. Or just start killing likely things. Or reboot. Good luck. IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation

 

[Chapter11]

From what I read, he already did the basics - reboot and clean it up.

 

[Yegolev]

Oops! IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation

 

[KenCunningham]

If possible, can you reboot the machine on which the filesystem is located. Could be that the connection needs reset to clean up the allocation? HTH.

 

[netmind5109]

I was able to find a directory with over a million blocks being used. The directory was very old and not being used, and the /export/home directory is now about 57% full. I guess I am still a little confused on not getting space back when I was removing files. Thank you all for your comments.

 

[tsuba]

Your problem is not really a problem. The thing is that in Solaris there's 10% of each file system reserved for root, and "df" command displays ignoring those 10%. So if you have a 4262591kb file system, the amount available for non root users will be "3836335". This will be equivalent to 100% and 0 blocks available in df. The kbytes colum display the real size of the file system. So untill your used space is above "3836335 kbytes" your available kbytes will remainin "0kb".