On 10/28/05, bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > My immediate question is: did you have enough space on / partition ? > If / fills up, say for having /tmp or /var on it during the update process the > system is going to crash. My other question, likely reason: you needed more > memory for the operation than what you had in ram + swap, this could also > lead to a crash-like situration, you could recover by adding a loopback swap, > but that did not happen.
I routinely (every two weeks or so) have a box at work that fills up the / partition. Someone had made a backup script that would back some data up to the wrong drive, so now the main drive fills up after a couple weeks. It has only caused a problem once so far and has never crashed the system (running Mandrake 10.) However, once the root partition is filled up, it will not open any more processes. On a side note, this is one of the things I enjoy most about FreeBSD, its default install is to have different partitions for / /usr /var and /tmp Now I do that for most linux installs I do (although I don't like that in Linux, /home is not a symlink to /usr/home by default, that makes a little bit more work.) _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
