On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Jonathan Moore wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Steve > Edwards<[email protected]> wrote: >> I finally found a reason TO run Asterisk as root. >> >> By default, ext[23] file systems "reserve" 5% of the filesystem for root. >> >> Thus, you may get some warning when everything non-root starts failing >> and give you a chance to free up some space before Asterisk is affected. > > Couldn't you get the same effect using quotas? Also, using separate > partitions for various parts of the filesystem is a nice addition. Having > your /var/log somewhere besides the same partition as / helps keep > runaway logs at bay, just as an example.
This is real sysadmin territory.... And it's a dying art, I fear. Too many people just creating one big partition, doing stupid (IMO) tricks like "tune2fs -m 0 ... " and so on. It's something you can't/won't ever learn from just doing a modern Linux install, or (worse, I reckon), installing something like pbxinaflash, etc. although to their credit, most of these pre-canned installs do seem to work well. Until they break. Then you need a sysadmin... Gordon (once a sysadmin, always a sysadmin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
