Clean up the log partition of replication appliance

[mike-p]

Hi,

on my replication appliance 3.4 the log partition ist full:

admin@Replication [ ~ ]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 720K 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda4 14G 3.4G 9.5G 27% /
tmpfs 3.9G 100K 3.9G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda2 240M 33M 196M 15% /boot
/dev/mapper/support_vg-vrmsdb 9.8G 91M 9.2G 1% /var/lib/vrmsdb
/dev/mapper/support_vg-heapdump 3.9G 8.1M 3.7G 1% /opt/vmware/heapdump
/dev/mapper/support_vg-support 2.0G 116M 1.7G 7% /opt/vmware/support
/dev/mapper/support_vg-logs 976M 976M 0 100% /opt/vmware/logs
tmpfs 798M 0 798M 0% /run/user/666

I found this expression in the last release notes of the replication service:

Upgrade

• NEW You cannot upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance to version 8.5

  When you try to upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance to version 8.5, the process fails without an error or warning. The problem is observed if your partition for logs (/opt/vmware/logs) is full.

  Workaround: Clean up the log partition before you upgrade to vSphere Replication 8.5.

But I did not find any hint howto clean up the log partition.

I checked the content of the partition and it looks like manual deleting of files is not a good idea. 

admin@Replication [ /opt/vmware/logs ]$ ls
hms lost+found upgrade
admin@Replication [ /opt/vmware/logs ]$ cd hms/
-bash: cd: hms/: Permission denied
admin@Replication [ /opt/vmware/logs ]$ cd upgrade/
-bash: cd: upgrade/: Permission denied

[mannharry]

Type the following command at the shell prompt to find out the top 20 largest files/directories

du -ah /opt/vmware/logs | sort -n -r | head -n 20

It would list out the largest files and then either you can remove them or mv to some other directory 

Regards

Harry

[mike-p]

I deleted some files manually but I had to escalade to root privilege. Than I updated to 8.6.0.21134460 and now I hope that the log rotation will work properly. 

]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 28K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 748K 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda4 14G 2.6G 11G 21% /
tmpfs 3.9G 172K 3.9G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda2 238M 25M 201M 11% /boot
/dev/mapper/support_vg-logs 975M 571M 354M 62% /opt/vmware/logs
/dev/mapper/support_vg-heapdump 3.9G 96K 3.7G 1% /opt/vmware/heapdump
/dev/mapper/support_vg-vrmsdb 9.8G 68M 9.2G 1% /var/lib/vrmsdb
/dev/mapper/support_vg-support 2.0G 320M 1.5G 18% /opt/vmware/support
tmpfs 798M 0 798M 0% /run/user/666

Regards Mike