Advfs /usr partition full, but not really: ADDENDUM

From: Acacio \(Casey\) Carvalho <"Acacio>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:43:44 -0400 (EDT)

I forgot to include the following info on my previous msg:

# showfdmn usr_domain
                        

               Id Date Created LogPgs Domain Name
34bbd79c.000b3441 Tue Jan 13 16:07:40 1998 512 usr_domain

  Vol 512-Blks Free % Used Cmode Rblks Wblks Vol Name
   1L 6043524 0 100% on 128 128 /dev/rz32g
# showfsets -k usr_domain
usr
        Id : 34bbd79c.000b3441.1.8001
        Files : 32944, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Blocks (1k) : 1925822, SLim= 0, HLim= 0
        Quota Status : user=off group=off

# du -k -s /usr
                        
1772370 /usr


>Greetings,
>
>I have a curious problem on our DU 4.0B system with patch 7.
>The /usr partition, which is a 3GB advfs partition show something like
>
># df -k /usr
>Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
>usr_domain#usr 3021760 1879517 46296 98% /usr
>
>There are no other filesets in the usr_domain.
>
>I have deleted hundreds of files from /usr, freeing up a few hundreds of megs
>in the partition, but as soon as disk space is freed up, you see the available
>disk space just start to disappear, and shortly the partition is full again.
>The messages file does not report anything of interest, except that it says that
>the partition is full. uerf does not have anything either.
>
>I have been talking to Compaq support and the initial suggestion was to do a
>vdump and vrestore, or add a volume to the domain. We don't really want to do
>this unless our backs are against the wall. Support thinks that the problem may
>be with the /usr/.tags/M-6 file:
>
># ls -l /usr/.tags/M-6
>
>---------- 0 root system 23085056 Dec 31 1969 /usr/.tags/M-6
>
>which may have grown to a size that no longer permits the creation of more files
>on the partition. But since I deleted numerous files, I would have expected
>this to behaviour to change. It does not seem to be so.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas on how this problem may be fixed, without using the
>drastic methods suggested so far by Compaq Support?


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