A General System Error Occurred Failed To Create Journal File
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Latest reply: Apr 9, 2013 12:06 PM by William22 Failed to a general system error occurred failed to start migration pre-copy create journal file provider: There is no space left on the device GeertBertens Apr 9, 2013 the file table of the ramdisk root is full 3:13 AM HiI have a VMware cluster with two ESXi hosts, when I try to create a new virtual machine, I get the following error message:A https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1019598 general system error occurred: Failed to create journal file provider: Failed to open "/var/log/vmware/journal/1365501764.5" for write: There is no space left on the deviceI logged in two both ESXi hosts, they all have enough free disk space:ESXI1: ~ # stat -f / File: "/" ID: 100000000 Namelen: 127 Type: visorfsBlock size: 4096Blocks: Total: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/442512?start=0&tstart=0 255385 Free: 116802 Available: 116802Inodes: Total: 524288 Free: 515949~ #ESXI2: ~ # stat -f / File: "/" ID: 100000000 Namelen: 127 Type: visorfsBlock size: 4096Blocks: Total: 255385 Free: 116757 Available: 116757Inodes: Total: 524288 Free: 515542~ #I've tried searching for files I could remove but there aren't any, everything's clean...How do I proceed? 3919Views Tags: none (add) This content has been marked as final. Show 2 replies 1. Re: Failed to create journal file provider: There is no space left on the device JCMorrissey Apr 9, 2013 3:29 AM (in response to GeertBertens) Hi,What version of ESX you running? if 4.x check the followinghttp://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1007638&sliceId=2&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=595766083&stateId=1%200%20595772201or covers 5.xhttp://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003564 as there is different reasons other than pure lack of file space.ta Like Show 0 Likes (0) Actions 2. Re: Failed to create journal file provider: There is no space left on the device William22 Apr 9, 2013 12:06 PM (in response to GeertBertens) HiWelcome to the communities.please let us know one bas
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