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WHAT’S FILLING UP FILESYSTEMS
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A common task for system administrators is determining what has filled up a full filesystem.

Here are some of my favorite commands to figure out why a filesystem is full…

#1 – du -sm ./* | sort -n

With this command, you first CD in to the filesystem that is full. You then run:

du -sm ./* | sort -n

This command will show the sizes everything in the directory, sorted by size (in
MB). Subdirectories show their total size, so you can use this command to quickly find and drill
down to deep subdirectories that are taking a lot of space.

Here is an example, that shows the “freeware” sub-directory is taking 377 MB of space. We can
CD to that directory and run the same command again to see what in the “freeware” directory is
taking so much space. You can repeat this until you have drilled down several directories.

/opt # du -sm ./* | sort -n

0.00 ./cam
0.00 ./lost+found
0.00 ./mcr
0.02 ./hsc
0.05 ./RPM_inst_root
0.20 ./perl
0.49 ./pconsole
0.53 ./diagnostics
0.78 ./IBM
1.57 ./Tivoli
11.25 ./IBMinvscout
17.12 ./csm
18.85 ./ibm
24.07 ./tivoli
48.29 ./LicenseUseManagement
377.80 ./freeware
/opt #
/opt #
/opt # cd freeware
/opt/freeware #
/opt/freeware # du -sm ./* | sort -n
0.00 ./64
0.00 ./src
0.00 ./var
0.04 ./include
0.11 ./sbin
0.16 ./etc
0.47 ./info
1.47 ./packages
1.91 ./man
9.82 ./bin
10.35 ./doc
33.66 ./share
69.14 ./cimom
72.27 ./lib64
178.41 ./lib
/opt/freeware #

#2 – Find based on size

You can use the “find” command to search a filesystem to find large files. I especially like the “-
xdev” flag which tells find to not traverse in to directories that are not part of the filesystem you
are searching on. This is especially useful when your “/” (root) filesystem fills up because if
you do a “find” on “/” without -xdev it will search every filesystem on the system since they are
mounted under “/”. But with “-xdev” it will only search what is actually in the “/” filesystem
and skip everything else.

Find all files larger than 1 MB:

find /tmp -xdev -size +echo 1024*1024 | bcc -ls
Find all files larger than 40 MB:
find /tmp -xdev -size +echo 1024*1024*40 | bcc -ls
Find all files larger than 1 GB:
find /tmp -xdev -size +echo 1024*1024*1024 | bcc -ls
Note that I’m just doing simple math with “bc” to calculate the byte size. For example, if you
wanted 500 MB it would be 1024*1024*500. If you wanted 50 GB it would be
1024*1024*1024*50.

#3 – Find based on modification date

You can also use “find” to show files recently modified. Here are some examples:

Find all files modified in the last 60 minutes (mmin is minutes):

find /tmp -xdev -mmin -60 -ls
Find all files modified in the last 5 days (mtime is days):
find /tmp -xdev -mtime -5 -ls
Post a comment with your favorite commands you use to find what’s filling up your filesystems.

lsdev -Cc processor will show the number of physical processors (or virtual processors in a
shared processor LPAR.

1. lsdev -Cc processor

proc0 Available 00-00 Processor

proc2 Available 00-02 Processor
SMT thread processors are seen with bindprocessor

1. bindprocessor -q

The available processors are: 0 1 2 3

lparstat -i will show the virtual and logical processors.

1. lparstat -i | grep CPU

Online Virtual CPUs : 2

Maximum Virtual CPUs : 15
Minimum Virtual CPUs : 1
Maximum Physical CPUs in system : 2
Active Physical CPUs in system : 2
Active CPUs in Pool : 2
Physical CPU Percentage : 25.00%

topas -L shows logical processors,

mpstat shows virtual

1. lsattr -El proc0

frequency 1498500000 Processor Speed False

smt_enabled true Processor SMT enabled False
smt_threads 2 Processor SMT threads False
state enable Processor state False
type PowerPC_POWER5 Processor type False

1. lscfg -v | grep -i proc

Model Implementation: Multiple Processor, PCI bus

proc0 Processor
proc2 Processor

1. prtconf | pg

System Model: IBM,9111-520

Machine Serial Number: 10EE6FE
Processor Type: PowerPC_POWER5
Number Of Processors: 2
Processor Clock Speed: 1499 MHz
CPU Type: 64-bit
Kernel Type: 64-bit
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To list LPAR related information and statistics.
lparstat {-i [ -W | -s | -P ] | -W | -s | -P | -d | -m [ -e [ r | R ] [ -p[w] ] ] | [ -H | -h ] | [-X [-
o filename ] ] [ -c ] | [-E [w ] ] [ -t ] [ Interval [ Count ] ] }
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Topas command
The topas command reports selected statistics about the activity on the local system. The
command uses the curses library to display its output in a format suitable for viewing on an
80x25 character-based display or in a window of at least the same size on a graphical display.
The topas command requires the bos.perf.tools and perfagent.tools file sets to be installed on
the system.
topas [ -d hotdisk ][ -f hotfs ] [ -h ] [ -i interval ] [ -n hotni ] [ -p hotprocess ] [ -w hotwlmclass ] [ -
c hotprocessor ][ -I remotepollinterval ][ -@ [ wparname ] ] [ -Uusername ] | [ -C -D | -G | -F | -
L | -P | -V | -T | -M | -t | -E | -W ] [ -m ]
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Prtconf Command
It displays/prints the system configuration information.
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