Solved: CISCO 9200 "No space left on device"

abtt-39 · ‎08-30-2023

Hello,

I am trying to update a cisco 9200 switch ( in fact, it's a stack, there a 2 switchs).

Switch Ports Model SW Version SW Image Mode
------ ----- ----- ---------- ---------- ----
* 1 32 C9200-24P 17.06.05 CAT9K_LITE_IOSXE INSTALL
2 32 C9200-24P 17.06.05 CAT9K_LITE_IOSXE INSTALL

i want to upgrade them to 17.9.3

First I did :

#install remove inactive

One the command is launched, nothing much happens, i don't retirn to the command prompt, I have to do ctrl Z

Then i copy the new image with an FTP

#copy tftp: flash:

Loading cat9k_lite_iosxe.17.09.03.SPA.bin from 10.X.X.x (via VlanX): !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
%Error writing flash:/cat9k_lite_iosxe.17.09.03.SPA.bin (No space left on device)

I rebooted the stack and redid #install remove inactive, but same result

#sh flash:

CG39-POLIGNY-CS-A3S sh flash :

-#- --length-- ---------date/time--------- path
2 2149 Aug 30 2023 11:34:31.0000000000 +00:00 boothelper.log
3 10156 Aug 30 2023 11:35:58.0000000000 +00:00 vlan.dat
4 4096 Aug 30 2023 11:39:10.0000000000 +00:00 .installer
5 5 May 03 2023 13:00:53.0000000000 +00:00 .installer/install_global_trans_lock
6 6 May 03 2023 12:05:32.0000000000 +00:00 .installer/install_issu_pid
7 14 Aug 30 2023 11:35:23.0000000000 +00:00 .installer/watchlist
8 10 May 03 2023 13:00:56.0000000000 +00:00 .installer/install_state
9 4096 May 03 2023 12:40:02.0000000000 +00:00 .installer/rollback
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14 6 May 03 2023 13:00:57.0000000000 +00:00 .installer/rollback/rb_points/2/bootdir
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Leo Laohoo · ‎08-30-2023

This is known bug/feature.

Reboot the entire stack and try again.

View solution in original post

Joseph W. Doherty · ‎08-30-2023

Likely switch's flash cannot contain two IOS files (not uncommon).

If that's the issue, you need to erase running image.

balaji.bandi · ‎08-30-2023

issue command - this will remove old IOS XE not active.

# install remove inactive

or

# request platform software package clean

then check the space and install it again.

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abtt-39 · ‎08-30-2023

In fact, i had already done an #install remove inactive ( before), but nothing seemed to happen.

is this command supposed to be fast? i waited 5 minutes. And I killed the process to return to the prompt.

Then i manually deleted the old pkg files.

retry an #install remove inactive, and i waited longer. And the command was executed untill the end.

The i was able to copy my new *.bin file and install it.

i still have 2 others stacks to upgrade, i'll see what happens, i will come and post a comment here.

abtt-39 · ‎08-30-2023

just upgraded a stack of 4 switches.

#install remove incative : It was fast, much faster than the previous stack.

The software upgrade being enable, it updated all the switches.

The installation time and reboot took around 40 minutes.

Thanks.

balaji.bandi · ‎08-30-2023

May the one having issue reboot in maintenance window and try again clean up and upgrade.

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Leo Laohoo · ‎08-30-2023

This is known bug/feature.

Reboot the entire stack and try again.

joshua4191 · ‎12-12-2024

I had this same issue, and a reboot fixed it.

permejdal · ‎07-16-2025

The switch runs Linux, and when you delete a file, it is not acutally deleted while the file is open by another proccess. This means that unclosed files takes up the space required for an upgrade. This is why a reboot is sometimes required before an upgrade can be done.

Joseph W. Doherty · ‎07-16-2025

The switch runs Linux, and when you delete a file, it is not acutally deleted while the file is open by another proccess. This means that unclosed files takes up the space required for an upgrade. This is why a reboot is sometimes required before an upgrade can be done.

I'm not a Linux expert, but generally no operating system allows you to delete a file that's currently "opened", especially by some other process/task.

What a reboot would do is eliminate whatever had the file opened, allowing the file to be deleted.

Possibly a better approach, if possible, would be to stop the process holding the file opened.

A potential issue with using a reboot, file space may still be considered allocated but unowned. To reclaim it, you may then need to run something like 'nx's fsck. (Possibly the OS boot will automatically free up such unowned allocated file space [or file space allocations pending in RAM until file closed - if so, with non scheduled reboot, poof, file space allocations never permanently recorded].)

Leo Laohoo · ‎07-16-2025

This is a well-known issue: CSCwa71156 & CSCwo59318

conf t
 iox
end
guestshell enable
guestshell destroy

Joseph W. Doherty · ‎07-16-2025

@Leo Laohoo wrote:

This is a well-known issue: CSCwa71156 & CSCwo59318
conf t
 iox
end
guestshell enable
guestshell destroy

Work arounds don't appear to include just simply rebooting will cure the described issue.

Oh, and what's described, being an issue, and how to correct, makes sense.

Leo Laohoo · ‎07-16-2025

The above and rebooting are known workarounds. The issue will return over time.

In the past, I would recommend "upgrade the firmware". Nowadays, I am less and less reluctant to make that same recommendation because upgrading the IOS-XE firmware (to fix currently issues faced) will only make things worse as upgrading unleash more bugs.

Furthermore, this kind of workaround only reinforces my opinion that regular reboots (4 to 6 months for 3650/3850 &/or 12 months for Catalyst 9k switches) to keep the network "healthy" is the only direction. So far, I have not been proven wrong. Yet.

Joseph W. Doherty · ‎07-17-2025

. . . my opinion that regular reboots . . . to keep the network "healthy" . . .

Reboots remediate memory leaks, memory fragmentation and memory corruption.

As software grows in size and complexity, and is subject to maintenance entropy, encountering more defects isn't surprising, what's surprising is that such software continues to work at all. ; )

To explain the issue, in a network kind of way, consider a media BER spec.

If the BER spec is constant as media speed increases your error rate over time increases proportionally to the speed increase!!!

For the same BER, one corrupted bit, seen on 10 Mbps Ethernet once every 10,000 days (about 27.4 years!) and, on 100 Gbps Ethernet, is now seen once a day!

With software, its "BER" improvement hasn't kept up with its increased "speed", so it appears its quality has decreased.

Possibly AI will improve software's "BER".

BTW, as I've (very rarely) have mentioned, I'm really not a network engineer, I'm really a software engineer.

permejdal · ‎07-17-2025

I am having a reoccurring issue of not having enough space on 9200 to do an install-mode to install-mode upgrade. So I am now doing install-mode to bundle-mode to install-mode upgrades instead. This is much more reliable. I think to underlying issue is that the images have become too large for reliable have 2 install-mode images at the same time.

Another issue I have, is that one stack member have spend about 500MB on files I cannot see with "show flash-4". I have counted the size of all the visible files to be sure. I have also rebooted and upgrade the switch to 17.12.05 using install-mode to bundle-mode to install-mode.

We can see that flash-4 have about 500MB less free space

aau-sw1#show file systems | i flash
*   1956839424     804503552      disk     rw   flash: bootflash: flash-1:
    1957167104     803733504      disk     rw   flash-2: stby-flash:
    1957167104     865599488      disk     rw   flash-3:
    1957167104     353370112      disk     rw   flash-4:

Lets see if the issue can be resolve.

aau-sw1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
aau-sw1(config)#iox
aau-sw1(config)#end
aau-sw1#guestshell enable
Interface will be selected if configured in app-hosting
Please wait for completion
The process for the command is not responding or is otherwise unavailable

aau-sw1#guestshell destroy
% Error: The application: guestshell, does not exist

aau-sw1#guestshell disable
% Error: The application: guestshell, does not exist

aau-sw1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
aau-sw1(config)#no iox
aau-sw1(config)#end
aau-sw1#show file systems | i flash
*   1956839424     803766272      disk     rw   flash: bootflash: flash-1:
    1957167104     803733504      disk     rw   flash-2: stby-flash:
    1957167104     865599488      disk     rw   flash-3:
    1957167104     353370112      disk     rw   flash-4:

Nope, did not work.