How to Clear space on the / mount on Linux (Openfiler NAS Install - rpath)
Hi Guys,
I have a customer that installed a version of Openfiler 2.99 as a VM on an ESXi Server, he has a little bit of IT knowledge which as we all know gets people in trouble.
Anyway all has been going well with this install but the other day he rang and said the shares had stopped working getting errors when he tried to access them from his windows server.
I started to have a look around and eventually found that the / mount was 100% which i am sure might be causiung the issue.
Anyway as i am not a Linux Expert, i need some help in clearing space.
When i have setup these in the past advise given to me by my Linux expert which i cant get in touch with at the moment was always to make a /var/log mount for all the logs to go into rather then letting logs build up in the / mount and i presume getting in trouble like this.
My Customer did not set this up when he installed openfiler at the start so my understanding is that all his log files are going into the / mount which might have filled up.
I can use WinSCP to get into the Install and can see everything but i am unsure what to delete/move etc
Can someone please let me know how to handle this.
Thanks Adam
I have a customer that installed a version of Openfiler 2.99 as a VM on an ESXi Server, he has a little bit of IT knowledge which as we all know gets people in trouble.
Anyway all has been going well with this install but the other day he rang and said the shares had stopped working getting errors when he tried to access them from his windows server.
I started to have a look around and eventually found that the / mount was 100% which i am sure might be causiung the issue.
Anyway as i am not a Linux Expert, i need some help in clearing space.
When i have setup these in the past advise given to me by my Linux expert which i cant get in touch with at the moment was always to make a /var/log mount for all the logs to go into rather then letting logs build up in the / mount and i presume getting in trouble like this.
My Customer did not set this up when he installed openfiler at the start so my understanding is that all his log files are going into the / mount which might have filled up.
I can use WinSCP to get into the Install and can see everything but i am unsure what to delete/move etc
Can someone please let me know how to handle this.
Thanks Adam
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FYI, openfiler hasn't been updated in waaaay too long. If he wants to play with this sort of thing, I'd suggest either zfsguru or freenas.
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Resolved by Deleting a heap of Logs in root
Going to look at another NAS solution although i must say apart from this i have been using openfiler for years and never much problems
Thanks Adam
Going to look at another NAS solution although i must say apart from this i have been using openfiler for years and never much problems
Thanks Adam
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System Information: mca-nas03.carrumdowns.mcaa
System Vital
Canonical Hostname mca-nas03.carrumdowns.mcaa
Listening IP 192.168.100.203
Kernel Version 2.6.32-71.18.1.el6-0.20.sm
Distro Name Openfiler NAS/SAN
Uptime 2 days 12 hours 26 minutes
Current Users 1
Load Averages 0.00 0.00 0.00
Network Usage
Device Received Sent Err/Drop
lo 9.36 KB 9.36 KB 0/0
eth0 111.62 MB 179.21 MB 0/0
Hardware Information
Processors 1
Model Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz
CPU Speed 2.66 GHz
Cache Size 4.00 MB
System Bogomips 5320
PCI Devices - Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
- Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE]
- Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
- IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
- ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA
- PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge
- (32x) PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port
- PCI bridge: VMware PCI bridge
- SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI
- System peripheral: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface
- VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
IDE Devices none
SCSI Devices - NECVMWar VMware IDE CDR10 (CD-ROM)
- VMware Virtual disk (Direct-Access)
- VMware Virtual disk (Direct-Access)
USB Devices none
Memory Usage
Type Percent Capacity Free Used Size
Physical Memory 13% 3.35 GB 526.48 MB 3.86 GB
- Kernel + applications 6% 217.68 MB
- Buffers 3% 116.82 MB
- Cached 5% 191.97 MB
Disk Swap 0% 2.00 GB 0.00 KB 2.00 GB
Mounted Filesystems
Mount Type Partition Percent Capacity Free Used Size
/mnt/volgroup00/volgroup00
/boot ext3 /dev/sda1 5% (10%) 438.73 MB 22.33 MB 486.16 MB
/ ext3 /dev/sda3 100% 0.00 KB 1.87 GB 1.87 GB
/dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 0% (1%) 1.93 GB 172.00 KB 1.93 GB
Totals : 88% 38.94 GB 526.63 GB 595.63 GB
This is what the openfiler webgui shows, as you can see the / (/dev/sda3) is 100%