Monitoring Splunk

How to resolve error "The minimum free disk space (5000MB) reached for /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/dispatch"?

Federica_92
Communicator

I have this problem:
The minimum free disk space (5000MB) reached for /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/dispatch.

So I cannot delete my data because splunk is full, I have tried to digit from command line :

   ./splunk clean eventdata -f

and I have tried to erase all my log from the splunk folder, but I have still the same problem.
Please can someone help me?

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Federica_92
Communicator
  The minimum free disk space (20000MB) reached for /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/dispatch. 

I have no idea why.

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ThomasControlwa
Path Finder

in my case, was the solution etit policy. just like the documentation (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Indexer/Setlimitsondiskusage) and also http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy
-->Set a retirement and archiving policy

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dmaislin_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You made the value larger? So now it is expecting 20GB free? What is your free disk space left on your host? Is this running on a laptop or something with very little disk space left?

Federica_92
Communicator

Sorry, I'm a kind of idiot! I have got it now, thank you so much

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nivethainspire_
Explorer

I am facing same issue, can u help me out

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dmaislin_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Please reference the link above.

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