Hard Disk filling up on AIX

I am running Oracle 9.2.0.1.0 on AIX 5.5.1. We are experiencing problems in that our /ora1 file system, which is the mount point where Oracle is installed and our one database has its control files, system tablespace, and undo tablespace (the other database files for this database are on another file system). All of those datafiles have autoextend turned off.
For the past week, I have been deleting as much stuff as I could, even to the extent of blowing away our development database (which really only freed up about 500 MB, since it also only had its control, system, and undo files there), and the file system keeps filling up. What could be causing this?
I'm also only marginally good at unix, is there an easy command I can run to see what files have a timestamp in the past 24 hours (since I blew away my development database)?
Thanks!
Marcia Thomasson

Nevermind, I found the problem. For anyone else who is interested, the database was running in archive log mode. It wasn't supposed to be, since this is a QA database and not a production database. The archive logs were filling up the hard disk.

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The HD named iPal believes Western Digital My Book is internalized and part of it so the 320 HD shows those 125 GB as used.
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Have you ever had reports of something like this?Is this SuperDuper? Is it the Western Digital Drive?
I would like to know so I can protect from this.
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Yes, I have puzzled through precisely that scenario. I did set up the external target drive but it did not get a backup on 3/31 (when this happened). The backup was placed on my internal drive,hence eating so much space.
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You should go back to your Apple Reatiler Store since it is likely under warranty.
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How to Connect my External WD Passport hard disk using wifi

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New Seagate 120GB EIDE 7200.9
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Older Maxtor 20 GB EIDE
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CoreStorageGroup: :complete IORequest - error 0xe00002ca detected for LVG "Macintosh HD" (E97F03A2-D03C-48C0-85D2-B470539CC780), pv F0B573D5-41D5-42E9-8B1D-7E432E4C99F6, near LV byte
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As an FYI, the only product on the market for drive/system testing on CoreStorage components on a "live" system to the best of my knowledge is Scannerz:
http://www.scsc-online.com
Don't go out and buy it, because that's likely not your problem. What the system is telling you is that you have an INDEXING problem.
Consider the following: You go to a library and you want to find a book on a topic. How do you do it? Do you start at the first shelf you see and then sequentially search from shelf to shelf to shelf, possibly from hundreds of thousand (or even millions) of books until you find the book? Of course not. You go to the libraries catalog, look it up and then go to the right shelf. Hard drives use index files the same way. When a file is requested, the drive looks at its index, then moves directly to the sectors containing the information.
Now, suppose you go to the library and you go to look up a book in the index files, and someone has stolen some of them (or if they're on a computer, they've deleted them...same thing). There's no information available at all. There's no way to find out where the books associated with the index files are. This is essentially what's happened to your hard drive. Some of the index files are corrupt, and in your case the index files that are missing are associated with the OS actually in the process of loading, hence the failure to boot.
This problem can be caused by the following:
1. Some of the sectors containing the startup information are corrupt (essentially a drive failure).
2. An application you have somehow or another managed to overwrite the indexing or startup files with information that doesn't make sense.
Like I said, Scannerz is, to the best of my knowledge the only application that can currently test CoreStorage components on a "live" system which would be needed in your case because you're using fully encrypted volumes, but it's of little value to you at this point. Even if you mounted and booted from an external drive and ran Scannerz on it and it confirmed that the sectors in the startup section of the drive were bad, all that would do is identify the source of the problem for you, not correct it. There is no utility on Earth than can properly recover information from a completely damaged sector (although some claim they can ... they're lying) any more than you can recover information from a paper page that someone set on fire and burned to ash.
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Here's a link to their website:
http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00034a0c
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Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 5100 40857600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 5101 38913 271602922+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 5101 7012 15358108+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7013 8924 15358108+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 8925 12571 29294496 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8 12572 16218 29294496 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda9 16219 19865 29294496 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda10 19866 23512 29294496 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda11 23513 27159 29294496 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda12 30807 34453 29294496 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda13 34454 38277 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda14 38278 38520 1951866 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda15 38521 38913 3156741 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda16 27160 30806 29294496 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/dm-0: 230.7 GB, 230669942784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 28044 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[me@arch ~]$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda15: UUID="6b0ec9ff-af7b-47c9-a7e3-33c860f8c706" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="FA481A59481A154B" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="E6AE2D34AE2CFF25" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="f0cb8bbe-7f41-442e-9f14-7b5aefa10ec0" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda6: UUID="030136d1-7985-4ba8-af33-929bab660c69" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda7: UUID="uuzBuM-OmD2-wvfg-X6cb-tuLY-4JTf-VVCcrJ" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sda8: UUID="CoXf98-btzg-Mfm3-pXR9-dHfW-tsmk-LbkTwh" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sda9: UUID="eBQ67Z-5RNv-Touw-GIpO-toW1-ZXCr-3uDKvR" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sda10: UUID="x8L0nI-MgI8-XZ0B-cm9k-it7J-frxe-AdSMaw" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sda11: UUID="FqO1Ca-60X4-br4P-FS3Y-1egf-ICrF-4cXr7W" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sda12: UUID="WzWN75-mq6R-D25Y-Mz1n-883n-dsYT-wQrH1B" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sda13: UUID="gqdPKd-1QhP-ya28-JmZ0-7hwU-00r1-swKu70" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sda14: UUID="1258-EDB5" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda16: UUID="cjdNvq-pm29-B5jE-YU4S-dLAi-N7JJ-RpJKDw" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/mapper/DataVolumeGroup-DataLogicalVolume: UUID="7eee3ccb-703c-4aad-918e-6e39488ea7b6" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/DataVolumeGroup-ProxyCache: UUID="6db398c5-fd22-4998-acc7-10661ac136bc" TYPE="reiserfs"
[me@arch ~]$ sudo pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda7
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
PV Size 27.94 GiB / not usable 3.91 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 7151
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 7151
PV UUID uuzBuM-OmD2-wvfg-X6cb-tuLY-4JTf-VVCcrJ
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda8
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
PV Size 27.94 GiB / not usable 3.91 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 7151
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 7151
PV UUID CoXf98-btzg-Mfm3-pXR9-dHfW-tsmk-LbkTwh
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda9
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
PV Size 27.94 GiB / not usable 3.91 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 7151
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 7151
PV UUID eBQ67Z-5RNv-Touw-GIpO-toW1-ZXCr-3uDKvR
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda10
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
PV Size 27.94 GiB / not usable 3.91 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 7151
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 7151
PV UUID x8L0nI-MgI8-XZ0B-cm9k-it7J-frxe-AdSMaw
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda13
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
PV Size 29.29 GiB / not usable 344.50 KiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 7499
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 7499
PV UUID gqdPKd-1QhP-ya28-JmZ0-7hwU-00r1-swKu70
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda11
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
PV Size 27.94 GiB / not usable 3.91 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 7151
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 7151
PV UUID FqO1Ca-60X4-br4P-FS3Y-1egf-ICrF-4cXr7W
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda16
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
PV Size 27.94 GiB / not usable 3.91 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 7151
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 7151
PV UUID cjdNvq-pm29-B5jE-YU4S-dLAi-N7JJ-RpJKDw
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda12
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
PV Size 27.94 GiB / not usable 3.91 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 7151
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 7151
PV UUID WzWN75-mq6R-D25Y-Mz1n-883n-dsYT-wQrH1B
[me@arch ~]$ sudo lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/DataVolumeGroup/DataLogicalVolume
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
LV UUID e7MjVc-JeR8-8Pz2-tiFY-2vwP-dVwq-B4q85K
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 214.83 GiB
Current LE 54996
Segments 8
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:0
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/DataVolumeGroup/ProxyCache
VG Name DataVolumeGroup
LV UUID LvKsfw-EqZU-gRTh-oZes-nP5c-Iw5I-0jBDja
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 2
LV Size 10.00 GiB
Current LE 2560
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:1
And a kvpm screenshot
So far, all partitions mount properly and the system works fine, but the bad output from fdisk and the new devices are unnerving. How can I fix this?
Thanks in advance.

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Help, I installed parallel and windows, and opened videos (on an external hard disk) with windows, and now cannot open them with Mac, and use i movies. How do I reverse this?

Help, I installed parallel and windows, and opened videos (on an external hard disk) with windows, and now cannot open them with Mac, and use i movies. How do I reverse this?

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What are you actually trying to do? Why do you need "DVD size" folders if you're creatng an Archive on an external hard drive?
Also, I understand burning folders instead of individual photos or albums gives you more space on a DVD.
It makes no difference at all.
How can I keep the captions on my photos (not events) when I print or transfer to a new folder?
You can export while writing the metadata to the file in most cases.
Tne only way I know is to copy photos from the Windows to folders on my HD, then copy and paste photos or albums or events to HD, then create a new folder and fill it to the appropriate DVD size.
HD? Another HD? You use HD there in a way that makes no sense. What's the point of 'DVD size'?
I also thought I should download future photos to my Canon programming that comes with EOS cameras and edit and then decide which photos to save to iPhoto library and which to save only to my archival HD?
Does this have any relation to the previous questions? You know you can delete from iPhoto, right?
You're somewhat confused and you need to
1. Decide what exactly you want to do
2. Then go about it.
If I understand you correctly - and there's no guarantee that I do - the easiest thing is to bring all your Photos into iPhoto and do everything from there.
You can have an archive on an external disk, you can sort and select and edit with or via iPhoto
Regards
TD

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