Avamar: How to Resolve the Issue of High Disk Usage or a Full Root Partition

1. Log in to the affected utility node or the single node as an admin user

2. Download the goav tool. Reference article Avamar: GoAV Product Tool for Management and Troubleshooting

3. Elevate to root privilege:

su -

4. Run the goav tool with the following options:

./goav system disk-cleaner

Sample output:

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║ GoAV                                             v2.04 ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Build : 02 Jul 2026 17:38 UTC                          ║
║ Date  : 03 Jul 2026 16:02 UTC                          ║
║ Avamar: 19.12.100-186                                  ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Command:./goav system disk-cleaner                     ║
╟────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ NOTE: This tool was created and is maintained          ║
║       by the ISG Support Tools team.                   ║
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Analyzing disk space usage...

Filesystem        Size    Used   Avail Use% Mounted on
ext2/ext3        17 GB  7.6 GB  8.3 GB  48% /

Available disk space on root partition: 8.3 GB

===> Checking common files....
Checking: /root/0.*
Checking: /root/tmp
Checking: /root/temp
Checking: /root/*.log
Checking: /root/*.tar.gz
Checking: /root/*.tar
Checking: /root/*.tgz
Checking: /root/*.rpm
Checking: /root/*.txt
Checking: /root/*.cap
Checking: /root/*.out
Checking: /root/*.avp
Checking: /usr/local/avamar-tomcat/webapps/ROOT/logBundle/*.zip
Checking: /root/.avamardata/var/mc/cli_log/*
Checking: /tmp/*.tab
Checking: /tmp/proactive_check*.tmp
Checking: /space/avamar/var/mc/server_tmp/axis2-tmp-*
Checking: /space/avamar/var/mc/server_tmp/jetty-tmp-*
Checking: /usr/local/avamar/java*.hprof
Checking: /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/*.restore

Found files that should be safe to delete. Total disk space used by files: 226 MB

/root/ave-part.log - 7.8 kB
/root/check.dpn-#.#.tgz - 134 kB
/root/check.dpn-#.s.tgz - 134 kB
/root/check.dpn-0.m.tgz - 134 kB
/root/actual_os_rpmlist.txt - 88 kB
/root/restart.out - 12 kB
/root/rollback.out - 36 kB
/root/.avamardata/var/mc/cli_log/mccli.log.1 - 10 MB
/root/.avamardata/var/mc/cli_log/mccli.log.2 - 10 MB
/root/.avamardata/var/mc/cli_log/mccli.log.3 - 10 MB
/space/avamar/var/mc/server_tmp/axis2-tmp-2084129350595501203.tmp - 18 MB
/space/avamar/var/mc/server_tmp/axis2-tmp-6166973257836770557.tmp - 23 MB
/usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/mcs_data_dump.sql.restore - 153 MB

┃ Do you want to permanently delete the files?
┃ > yes
┃   no
┃   quit

Deleted file: /root/ave-part.log
Deleted file: /root/check.dpn-#.#.tgz
Deleted file: /root/check.dpn-#.s.tgz
Deleted file: /root/check.dpn-0.m.tgz
Deleted file: /root/actual_os_rpmlist.txt
Deleted file: /root/restart.out
Deleted file: /root/rollback.out
Deleted file: /root/.avamardata/var/mc/cli_log/mccli.log.1
Deleted file: /root/.avamardata/var/mc/cli_log/mccli.log.2
Deleted file: /root/.avamardata/var/mc/cli_log/mccli.log.3
Deleted file: /space/avamar/var/mc/server_tmp/axis2-tmp-2084129350595501203.tmp
Deleted file: /space/avamar/var/mc/server_tmp/axis2-tmp-6166973257836770557.tmp
Deleted file: /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/mcs_data_dump.sql.restore

┃ Do you want to check and create symlinks?
┃ > yes
┃   no
┃   quit

===> Checking symlinks....

Checking /usr/local/avamar/tmp

Directory /usr/local/avamar/tmp does not exist.

┃ Do you want to create a symlink /usr/local/avamar/tmp -> /data01/avamar/tmp?
┃ > yes
┃   no
┃   quit

Copying files and creating a symlink to /data01/avamar/tmp

Checking /usr/local/avamar/src

┃ Do you want to create a symlink /usr/local/avamar/src -> /data01/avamar/src?
┃ > yes
┃   no
┃   quit

Copying files and creating a symlink to /data01/avamar/src

┃ Do you want to check for unused Tomcat directories?
┃ > yes
┃   no
┃   quit

===> Checking for unused Tomcat directories....

The current Tomcat directory is /usr/local/avamar-tomcat-9.0.90

No unused Tomcat directories were found.

┃ Do you want to move Proxy Mount Manager files if applicable?
┃ > yes
┃   no
┃   quit

===> Moving Proxy Mount Manager files if applicable....

┃ Do you want to check for replication log directories?
┃ > yes
┃   no
┃   quit

===> Checking for replication log directories....
No replication log directories found.

===== All operations have been completed =====

Available disk space on root partition: 8.3 GB
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Please carefully check the available disk space.

If the available disk space is still too low, the reserved block percentage can be set from the default 5% to a lower value.
Using this option is dangerous! Please use it as a last resort ONLY!!!

┃ Do you want to adjust the reserved blocks percentage?
┃ > no
┃   yes

===== Disk space usage after making all changes =====

Filesystem        Size    Used   Avail Use% Mounted on
ext2/ext3        17 GB  7.6 GB  8.3 GB  48% /

Available disk space on root partition: 8.3 GB

Disk space recovered: 32 MB

Please review all changes. You may want to make additional adjustments manually.

All tasks have been completed.