Wednesday 28 December 2011

No space left on device/filesize limit exceeded in AIX 6.1

When transfering file by FTP,
will get a error message "No space left on device/filesize limit exceeded" in AIX 6.1

$ pwd
/home/oracle
$ ftp 192.168.124.62
Connected to 192.168.124.62.

220 192.168.124.62 FTP server (Version 4.2 Thu Dec 16 16:45:49 CST 2010) ready.
Name (192.168.124.62:oracle): oracle
331 Password required for oracle.
Password:
230 User oracle logged in.


ftp > cd /app/soft
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -ltr
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls
-rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall         141852 Dec 27 15:18  unzip

-rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 1073741312 Dec 27 17:35 10gr2_aix5l64_database.cpio.gz

ftp > hash
ftp > get 10gr2_aix5l64_database.cpio.gz
200 PORT command successful.

150 Opening data connection for 10gr2_aix5l64_database.cpio.gz
###############################################
###############################################
###############################################
#############...
10gr2_aix5l64_database.cpio.gz: short write

No space left on device/filesize limit exceeded.
226 File send OK.
225 No transfer to ABOR.

ftp > bye
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But in 192.168.1.124.62 server
There is enough space on the mount points.


$ df -g
Filesystem GB blocks    Free %Used    Iused %    Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4        1.00         0.93     8%       2795        2%         /
/dev/hd2        2.00         0.80   61%     29055      13%        /usr
/dev/hd9var   6.00         5.22   14%         621        1%        /var
/dev/hd3        3.00         2.91     3%       1251        1%       /tmp
/proc              -              -           -                 -         -         /proc
/dev/hd10opt 2.00         0.94   53%       8306        4%       /opt
/dev/fslv00   45.00       26.86   41%   629463      10%      /app
/dev/fslv01     5.00         2.18   57%       4497        1%      /home
/dev/fslv02   80.00       70.41   12%       9779        1%     /data

So, Login into "root" user,
$ sudo su -
password root: ********


root:/home #
edit the /etc/security/limits file,

and add the oracle user with value "unlimit" or "-1"
# view /etc/security/limits

root :
                fsize = -1
                data = -1
                  rss = -1
              stack = -1
               core = -1
      fsize_hard = -1
       cpu_hard = -1
      data_hard = -1
    stack_hard = -1
     core_hard = -1
           nofiles = -1


oracle:

            fsize = -1
            data = -1
              rss = -1
          stack = -1
           core = -1
  fsize_hard = -1
   cpu_hard = -1
  data_hard = -1
stack_hard = -1
 core_hard = -1
       nofiles = -1

Finally, you have to restart the machine to take effects the changes. . .
after reboot, now you can transfer what ever you want...

2 comments:

  1. Well this certainly helped. I didn't even have the -1 for root. So I added it and no more "not enough disk space" error. df -g showed enough, of course.

    Thanks!

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  2. This helped us a lot today, but after setting all those we had to restart the machine to get this working.
    Thanks a lot
    Gowtham P

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