according to sysadmin 101 you should have things that look for obscene disk allocation. I agree that it was better to catch it on a single partition that the whole system...
...but you should be running hourly cron jobs that look for this. And espcially when your in a dev env. -e On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, tack wrote: > > Now... with cheap HD's and fast access times there is no need to split > > it up... > > Actually, the thing that John ran into is a good reason to split them up. > How long would this have gone on before the log took up ALL the space, and > users can no longer save documents, recieve email, etc. I've heard one > DOS trick is to send a lot of requests so that single partitioned servers > logs fill up the drive and the legit users can no longer use it. > > Video files are something you don't want fragmented if you're editing. > A seperate partition for them is a good idea. Is greater rotational speed > of the drive platter on the outsides of the disk conducive to higher data > rates? If so, then partitioning to ensure, say, your video files get > better throughput than your emails would be a good idea. > > tack > > > _______________________________________________ > Bits mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits > _____________________________________________________________________________ <majcher> icky is like a shadowy hit man, that nobody ever sees, and can only contact through some strange process. _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
