File System on Control Domain Full

The following errors or alerts might appear in??XenCenter:

• File System on Control Domain Full.

• Disk usage for the Control Domain on server 'XenServer' has reached 99.0%. XenServer's performance will be critically affected if this disk becomes full .

• Log files or other non-essential (user created) files should be removed.

Impact on the environment

• Performance of the VMs across the pool or host becomes sluggish.

• Host becomes completely unresponsive.

• XenServer console will show error:??"The XenAPI connection has timed out , the console will have reduced functionality".

• All the Consoles, for hosts or VM,????become??unresponsive.

• Error while trying to update hotfixes: "No space left on the device".

• Any command or any process on the host ??takes too long to execute.

To find out the proper usage, execute the following command.

#df -h
Filesystem?????????????????????? Size?? Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2???????????????????????? 4.0G?? 3.6G?? 147M?? 97% /
none?????????????????????????????????? 2.0G???? 40K?? 2.0G???? 1% /dev/shm
/opt/xensource/packages/iso/XenCenter.iso
???????????????????????????????????????????? 52M???? 52M???????? 0 100% /var/xen/xc-install
/dev/mapper/XSLocalEXT--6e4fc08e--5459--ccbb--4959--2bccc93076ea-6e4fc08e--5459--ccbb--4959--2bccc93076ea
?????????????????????????????????????????? 542G?? 167G?? 347G?? 33% /var/run/sr-mount/6e4fc08e-5459-ccbb-4959-2bccc93076ea

Note: The highlighted percentage can vary from any value from 90 - 100.

Complete the following steps:

1. Remove additional Logs.

2. Remove??rogue entries of patch.

3. Remove??the patch-backups.

4. Review additional files.

Remove??additional Logs

• #cd /var/log
• #ls
• remove the logs using #rm -rf ??

Refer to the following screen shot for the complete command. This command ensures that all the current logs files will be intact and will not be deleted.

Remove??rogue entries of patch

• #cd /var/patch

• Remove all the entries except the??"/applied" folder??

Use the following command to remove all the rogue patches and without deleting the applied folder

?? ?? ??#ls | grep [0-9] |xargs rm -rf

Remove the patch-backups

• cd /opt/xensource/patch-backup
• ls
• rm -rf *

Remove stunnel entries

???? ??. ?? ??# cd /tmp/


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Note: If??these steps do not reflect the space being cleared,??run #service syslog restart and the usage inside the root file system will be cleared.

Review Additional files

• Check /tmp directory for any rogue files. You can delete everything inside it as XenServer wont store any default files in it.

• Check "~" and "/" to see if there are any additional ISO files or any extra packages??are present inside the directory.??If yes, delete them.

Even after executing all those above steps if the space is still not reclaimed, contact Citrix Technical support.

• Root??Partition??is filled up.

• Rogue Entries of patches and log files.

• XenServer Root Disk Maintenance

• CTX130327 -??How to Enable Log Compression on XenServer

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