Hi Mark, If you ask me my oppinion, the seperate /home /var /tmp and heck /usr partitions should be a default in the Linux world also. In fact many distros do exactly that if you choose automatic partitioning. As for putting /home in /usr/home , well what about the abomination /home/users/.... , and i will not mention the distro that does that :-) And you are right, filling / is survivable, but is not a very good policy. There is usually a few % of disk space in reserve, and only root can access it, so even when it says full, it is full minus the reserve. Now the trouble starts when a process running as root does the filling, then you dont have a reserve anymore ... On the subject, it might be intresting to compile a document about the many different fs-structures floating about in the unix world, i think i would be a useful document , how about ?
Cheers Szemir On October 28, 2005 14:37, Mark Carlson wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
