While I was trying to create a new virtual machine from template, I’m getting an error message: Failed to deploy template: A general system occured: Failed to create journal file provider.

Var partition full

I found the problem because of “/var” partition are running out of space. Damn!

During my previous VMware ESX setup, the partition setup are configure as  DEFAULT which is 2G for “/var/log”.

[root@esxserver root]# df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 4.9G 2.1G 2.6G 45% /
/dev/sda1 99M 28M 67M 30% /boot
/dev/sda6 2.0G 496M 1.4G 27% /var/log

Normally, /var partition won’t be filled up easily(1st time encounter this problem) and for some reasons, total of 36 /var/log/vmkernel* related files are fully occupied the /var partition.

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