Hello community,
I have an issue with an ESXi 5.5.0, ramdisk root partition is full
| Ramdisk | Size | Used | Available | Use% |
| root | 32M | 32M | 0B | 100% -- |
| etc | 28M | 228K | 27M | 0% -- |
| tmp | 192M | 128K | 191M | 0% -- |
| hostdstats | 1053M | 19M | 1033M | 1% -- |
My problem is that i don't know how to clean it to make some available space, it seems logs folder doesnt consume that much space as everything is in /scratch and /scratch is linked to /vmfs
~ # du -hs /var/*
4.0K /var/core
476.0K /var/db
35.7M /var/lib
8.0K /var/lock
240.0K /var/log
4.0K /var/opt
848.0K /var/run
16.0K /var/spool
4.0K /var/tmp
~ # ls -lh /var/log/
total 224
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 3 2015 Xorg.log -> /scratch/log/Xorg.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 2 12:22 arcconf.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 3 2015 auth.log -> /scratch/log/auth.log
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 50.8K Aug 3 2015 boot.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 3 2015 clomd.log -> /scratch/log/clomd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20.5K Dec 11 20:35 configRP.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 3 2015 dhclient.log -> /scratch/log/dhclient.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 2 12:19 esxcli.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Aug 3 2015 esxupdate.log -> /scratch/log/esxupdate.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 3 2015 fdm.log -> /scratch/log/fdm.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 3 2015 hostd-probe.log -> /scratch/log/hostd-probe.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 3 2015 hostd.log -> /scratch/log/hostd.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Aug 3 2015 hostprofiletrace.log -> /scratch/log/hostprofiletrace.log
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 ipmi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 3 2015 lacp.log -> /scratch/log/lacp.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 3 2015 osfsd.log -> /scratch/log/osfsd.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 3 2015 rhttpproxy.log -> /scratch/log/rhttpproxy.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug 3 2015 sdrsinjector.log -> /scratch/log/sdrsinjector.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 3 2015 shell.log -> /scratch/log/shell.log
-rw------- 1 root root 4.4K Aug 3 2015 smbios.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Aug 3 2015 storagerm.log -> /scratch/log/storagerm.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 3 2015 swapobjd.log -> /scratch/log/swapobjd.log
-rw------- 1 root root 4.6K Aug 3 2015 sysboot.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Aug 3 2015 syslog.log -> /scratch/log/syslog.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 3 2015 usb.log -> /scratch/log/usb.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug 3 2015 vmamqpd.log -> /scratch/log/vmamqpd.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug 3 2015 vmauthd.log -> /scratch/log/vmauthd.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Aug 3 2015 vmkdevmgr.log -> /scratch/log/vmkdevmgr.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 3 2015 vmkernel.log -> /scratch/log/vmkernel.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Aug 3 2015 vmkeventd.log -> /scratch/log/vmkeventd.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 3 2015 vmksummary.log -> /scratch/log/vmksummary.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 3 2015 vmkwarning.log -> /scratch/log/vmkwarning.log
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 vmware
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 3 2015 vobd.log -> /scratch/log/vobd.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Aug 3 2015 vprobe.log -> /scratch/log/vprobe.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug 3 2015 vprobed.log -> /scratch/log/vprobed.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 3 2015 vpxa.log -> /scratch/log/vpxa.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 3 2015 vsantraces -> /scratch/vsantraces
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug 3 2015 vsanvpd.log -> /scratch/log/vsanvpd.log
~ # ls -l /
total 529
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Aug 3 2015 altbootbank -> /vmfs/volumes/68867271-7c68f435-692d-c33e2403945c
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Aug 3 2015 bootbank -> /vmfs/volumes/dd2ebb77-30fe0cd0-acb9-14d71bf68873
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 300058 Feb 22 2014 bootpart.gz
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Feb 3 10:57 dev
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Jan 13 17:39 etc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 lib
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 lib64
-r-x------ 1 root root 17615 Aug 3 2015 local.tgz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 3 2015 locker -> /store
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 mbr
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 opt
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 131072 Feb 3 10:57 proc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 3 2015 productLocker -> /locker/packages/5.5.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 22 2014 sbin -> /bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Aug 3 2015 scratch -> /vmfs/volumes/559a8840-bef1f5b0-63c4-44a84225154e
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Aug 3 2015 store -> /vmfs/volumes/559a8823-5d176df8-004a-44a84225154e
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 tardisks
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 tardisks.noauto
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 512 Feb 3 10:01 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 usr
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 var
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 vmfs
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Aug 3 2015 vmimages
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 22 2014 vmupgrade -> /locker/vmupgrade
any help on solving this issue would be really appreciated 
thanks
G