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Hello folks,
Today one customer has reported an instance where he is facing an issue with configuration utility, and it was The BIG-IP System has encountered a configuration problem that may prevents the configuration utility to function properly.
Based on the Qkview shared by customer, I found that Appliance is running out of disk space and under the incident there was a list of directories and its file size and currently occupied size for the same. The suggested article explained to remove unnecessary files from the appliance to prevent this behavior.
However I found a list of directories which doesn't seem familiar to play with. Following is the list of the same.
/dev/md7 248M 188M 48M 80% / /dev/md8 1.7G 1.3G 296M 82% /usr 69M 69M 0 100% /tmp/eud
There were other directories as well, but the consumption of those directories were seeing normal. I am not aware about /MD7 /MD8 etc..
I need your help you understand the meaning of that directories and its role with BIG-IP. Can you please help?
Thank you in advance, Darshan
11 Replies
- nitass
Employee
/dev/md7 248M 188M 48M 80% / /dev/md8 1.7G 1.3G 296M 82% /usr 69M 69M 0 100% /tmp/eud
what is platform? is it with raid?
swo0sh_gt_13163It is running over 11.2.0 HF7
- swo0sh_gt_13163
Yes, the appliance is running on RAID.
- swo0sh_gt_13163
I just need to confirm if it is good to remove files from MD7? Or not?
JGCumulonimbus
No! That's the raid device mounted as "/"!- swo0sh_gt_13163Well, the issue customer had reported was, configuration utility is not loading and keep throwing message as mentioned above in the question. And in the QKview I found that appliance is running out of disk space, so I guess that might the problem. Can you correct me if I am wrong guessing the behavior? Thanks, Darshan
- JG
It looks like it's the root partition that is filled up. Not an uncommon problem. I am worried about this, esp. when it's time to upgrade.
- swo0sh_gt_13163
Hello,
The result of the command seems same as listed in the question.
- Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
- /dev/md7 248M 188M 48M 80% /
- /dev/md9 3.0G 137M 2.7G 5% /config
- /dev/md8 1.7G 1.3G 296M 82% /usr
- /dev/md10 3.0G 427M 2.4G 15% /var
- /dev/md0 30G 2.4G 26G 9% /shared
- /dev/md1 6.9G 185M 6.4G 3% /var/log
- none 4.0G 700K 4.0G 1% /dev/shm
- none 4.0G 17M 3.9G 1% /var/tmstat
- none 4.0G 1.2M 4.0G 1% /var/run
- prompt 4.0M 28K 4.0M 1% /var/prompt
- /dev/md15 12G 660M 11G 6% /var/lib/mysql
- /var/EUD_M-12.11.0.841.0.im 69M 69M 0 100% /tmp/eud
Thanks, Darshan
- JGIt is not obvious which fs ran out of disk space now. What are the original error messages in the logs (dmesg)?
- swo0sh_gt_13163
Hello Jie,
Sorry for the dumb question, but how can I get dmesg? I have the Qkview with me.
- swo0sh_gt_13163
Hey, got it! Executing it from CLI, will post the result of the same. Thanks,
