Random "No space on device messages"

smeezekitty · 02-14-2010, 11:06 PM

Ocassionally i get a "No space on device" message on all open terminals
and in logs.
How do i make it go away.

jstephens84 · 02-15-2010, 12:42 AM

Does it inform you of what device. What do you get when you type in

Code:

stat -f /

Also can you print how your filesystem is setup?

smeezekitty · 02-15-2010, 12:50 AM

Code:

[root@localhost(/)]stat -f /
File: "/"
ID: 0 Namelen: 64 Type: ext2/ext3
Blocks: Total: 193510 Free: 168520 Available: 158681 Size: 4096
Inodes: Total: 98496 Free:75816
[root@localhost(/)]df -h
Filesystem     Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6     756M 98M 620M 14% /
/dev/hda1     99M 9.2M 85M 10% /boot
/dev/hda8     79M 0 79M 0% /d
/dev/hda2     9.7G 33M 9.2G 1% /home
none          62M 0 62M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5     756M 17M 701M 3% /tmp
/dev/hda3     4.0G 1.7G 2.1G 45% /usr
/dev/hda7     464M 46M 395M 11% /var
[root@localhost(/)]

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Code:

[root@localhost(/)]free
     total     used     free    shared     buffers     cached
    125992     92224     33768     0     7316     60240
-/+ buffers/cache     24668     101324
Swap      7992     2004     5998
[root@localhost(/)]

jstephens84 · 02-15-2010, 12:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smeezekitty

Code:

[root@localhost(/)]stat -f /
File: "/"
ID: 0 Namelen: 64 Type: ext2/ext3
Blocks: Total: 193510 Free: 168520 Available: 158681 Size: 4096
Inodes: Total: 98496 Free:75816
[root@localhost(/)]df -h
Filesystem     Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6     756M 98M 620M 14% /
/dev/hda1     99M 9.2M 85M 10% /boot
/dev/hda8     79M 0 79M 0% /d
/dev/hda2     9.7G 33M 9.2G 1% /home
none          62M 0 62M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5     756M 17M 701M 3% /tmp
/dev/hda3     4.0G 1.7G 2.1G 45% /usr
/dev/hda7     464M 46M 395M 11% /var
[root@localhost(/)]

Hmmmm..... Well I am at a loss for words here. Everything looks fine. The only thing I can think of is some large temp file gets written to /usr and brings the avaliable space to 0. Does this happen at random intervals by chance? Maybe like a cron command that gets fired off?

smeezekitty · 02-15-2010, 12:59 AM

Quote:

Hmmmm..... Well I am at a loss for words here. Everything looks fine. The only thing I can think of is some large temp file gets written to /usr and brings the avaliable space to 0. Does this happen at random intervals by chance? Maybe like a cron command that gets fired off?

It seems to do it about evrey 30 min but it doesnt seem perfectly timed.
BTW, Whats cron?

jstephens84 · 02-15-2010, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smeezekitty

It seems to do it about evrey 30 min but it doesnt seem perfectly timed.
BTW, Whats cron?

Sorry meant to say command in crontab. Which is like schedule tasks for linux and unix.

smeezekitty · 02-15-2010, 01:12 AM

Code:

crontab -l
0 0 * * 1 sysx.sh

smeezekitty · 02-15-2010, 03:48 PM

a bump lump.

jstephens84 · 02-15-2010, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smeezekitty

a bump lump.

can you what sysx.h is doing? When you this message pop up try doing a fdisk -l to see if you can see any drive with 0 available space.

smeezekitty · 02-15-2010, 05:19 PM

Code:

which sysx.sh
/usr/bin/sysx.sh
cat /usr/bin/sysx.sh
#/bin/bash
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/spec bs=1M count=32
exec /usr/bin/backup
rm /usr/spec