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Hi All!
I run following commands to flush cache but it didnt work
# sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
# sync; echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
# sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
need guidance as server is stuck since last night.
More specific details would be needed. Do you mean `df`, like this?
Maybe this web-search would help: finding what intitle:cache has filled up linux disk
(I think your commands refer to RAM memory, not disk)
Is there a cache directory? Best wishes. Let us know!
Well, strictly speaking, he can do it because /proc is not a "real" file system. But I don't think that this is going to help his "disk full" problem in any way.
Let us hope that he had the foresight to install LVM = Logical Volume Management on his computer. If he did, all that must be done is to add another physical volume to the "physical storage pool," then assign that storage to the "logical volume" that supports the Oracle database. In a few minutes, and without rebooting the computer, the additional storage will magically appear at this mount-point.
I will flatly say that I think every Linux computer ... server, or personal ... should as a matter of course have LVM in place. "Running out of disk space" is extremely difficult to work-out-of if you don't have it; trivial, if you do.
Last edited by sundialsvcs; 12-01-2016 at 09:27 AM.
Don't use what you don't understand. End of story.
"Truer words hath not been spoken!"
I see lots of people taking a "whack-a-mole" approach to problem-solving: they grab on to "the first thing that they Googled," and then just can't let go of it. They also don't think to ask their colleagues for guidance in understanding and resolving the problem: they just start whacking moles.
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