The available disk space for the /opt directory is less than 5.0G

[aateeq]

After I successfully installed the Splunk Enterprise on my Oracle Vbox, I got a message that says: "The minimum free disk space (5000MB) reached for /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/dispatch".

Then I used the (sudo du -sh /opt) command and I found that the /opt directory resides the space 3.8G (less than 5.0G), even though, I allocated 40G for the machine at all !!

My question is how to increase the disk space given for the /opt directory?

PS: The health status of IoWalt under the resource usage is RED!!

[yannK]

it is not really a splunk question, this is a question for your linux sys admin or your VM provider

- to adjust the disk space on your mounts

 - or to create a new mount (like /opt/splunk ) on a large disk

PS : also if this box will be an indexer, you may also want to relocate the splunk indexes ( default on /$SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk on a different mount with enough space to grow over time, as you ingest)

[aateeq]

@yannK First of all, thanks for your response. Actually, I asked my question here because I followed the official installation instructions by installing Splunk in the /opt directory, so I thought it could be an installation issue.