SYS Volume Rapidly runs Out of Space

[spi200]

Hi Guys

I have had a couple of instances where all of a sudden during normal operations the SYS Volume consumes all remaining Disk Space and the the Server issue's a "Volume low warning". The error logs do show that an Un-recoverable Non-OS error occurred in NDPSM while writing to Disk, but nothing more than this. Soon after the event the offending files which was consuming the disk space are purged and the disk space returns to normal. This disk is not a Data disk and few people have any rights to it at all, only our system admin's and help desk, and they assure me they were not stuffing around.
Could a Faulty print job in NDPS cause this sought of problem while adding to the Queue ?
The server is 5.1 SP3 and has been very reliable as have all our Netware servers which all run this patch, but I will now look at patching to SP6 after this event.
Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

David CNE
Lan Administrator

 

[acetylyne]

Hi,

The best thing to do, if you can't find anything about your issue on novell's knowledgebase, is to update to the latest support pack for your OS. Even if it doesn't fix your problem, if you have to call Novell, the first thing they tell you is to apply the latest support pack.

hope that helps

Josh

 

[SuperDaveDCF]

I haven't seen your particular problem before but it does sound plausible. Consider changing the location of the queue to another volume as you definitely don't want sys becoming full. I, too, would suggest Sp6 but make sure you also get the Post Sp6 NDPS files as well.

 

[spi200]

Thanks Guys

I will organise the SP6 as soon a s I can, it looks like a lot of files have been updated since SP3 so I will give it ago.

Regards

David

 

[mblok]

If using Arcserve, watch you database

 

[TheLad]

It may be worth thinking about relocating your print queues/NDPS Manager off your SYS volume as well.

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[fbizzell]

I have the same problem running of disk space on sys volume however it is caused by 1000's of bak files. The name of the files are DHCPTRAN.BAK Apparently the DHCPTRAN.LOG file is created and then the current one is renamed to bak and deleted. What's the fix for this besides loading the latest service pack? Also how do you do an automatic purge as soon as a file is deleted?