> Richard,
>    Nothing in the error log.
>
> # bosboot -a -q
>
> Filesystem      KB required
> /tmp            20582
> # df -k |grep  /tmp
> /dev/hd3           786432    608948   23%      134     1% /tmp

Here's the problem.  Notice how it complains it can't open
/tmp/bosboot_67756_18272/unix_1704.Z?  If I do repeated ls's on that dir
as the command runs, I see this:

(3:43pm)[new-tsmserver1]{/tmp}> sudo ls -al bosboot*
total 40616
drwx------   2 root     system          512 Nov 23 15:42 .
drwxrwxrwt  12 bin      bin            1536 Nov 23 15:42 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      7660080 Nov 23 15:42 Bootram.fs
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     system     10485742 Nov 23 15:42 unix_1704
-rw-------   1 root     system      2637824 Nov 23 15:43 unix_1704.gz

and on the working server:

(3:44pm)[new-tsmserver2]{/tmp}> sudo ls -al bosboot*
total 23648
drwx------   2 root     system          512 Nov 23 15:44 .
drwxrwxrwt  11 bin      bin            2048 Nov 23 15:44 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      7460981 Nov 23 15:44 Bootram.fs
-r--------   1 root     system        12485 Nov 23 15:44 bootinfo.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system            0 Nov 23 15:44 dd.out
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system          153 Nov 23 15:44 filesystems
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system            0 Nov 23 15:44 mkboot.out
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     system      4614307 Nov 23 15:44 unix_3950.Z

So, it's using gzip, but expecting compress?

mmm....so, why the difference?  How does it decide what compression
program to use?

>
>
> Larry
>
>
> Richard Sims writes:
>
> > On Nov 23, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Lawrence McMahon wrote:
> >
> >>    Yes, /tmp has space.
> >> /dev/hd3           786432    608948   23%      134     1% /tmp
> >
> > Well, it has space at the time the 'df' command was issued; but it
> > may have run out of space during an operation, and as part of
> > operation recovery, the operation may have removed the partial work
> > from /tmp.
> >
> > I would check the AIX Error Log, where AIX usually creates an entry
> > (e.g., JFS_FS_FULL) when a file system has filled. Also try the
> > bosboot -q option.
> >
> >    Richard Sims
>
>
>
> Lawrence McMahon
> Senior Programmer Analyst
> 341 Computing Center, North Campus
> 645-3579
>
>

Steve Roder
University at Buffalo
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