Description

The EX4600-40F disk size is 1.6GB, however, to store logs, the available size is limited to 242M

Symptoms

A file of 242M size is located in /var/log/, attempting to paste a file in the /var/log folder fails as not enough space even though the device disk size is 1.6GB. 

Solution

The EX4600-40F disk size is 1.6GB, however, to store logs, the directory available size is limited to 242M

The command >show system storage | match " /var/log", will display the total directory size, the space used and the available space.

 

{master:0}
root@ex4600-40f> show system storage | match " /var/log"
/dev/ad1s1a       242M    8.7M    214M    4% /var/log

Modification History

2024-07-17 : Article Created