Which proved the point.  :-)
If there wasn't separate partitions, it would have been more difficult to 
recover the box if the entire system had filled up.

Neil B.

On Thursday 04 October 2007 21:43, bogi wrote:
> He had his /home on a separate partition, and he filled it.
> Cheers
> Szemir
> 
> On October 4, 2007 16:21, Neil Bower wrote:
> > Glad to hear you have your problem fixed Richard.
> >
> > I guess this is a good example why it's a good policy to have certain
> > directories mounted on different partitions. (ie /home, /var) The file
> > systems gets filled on the separate partitions, but does not choke the
> > whole box.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Neil B.
> >
> > On Thursday 04 October 2007 16:10, Richard Carter wrote:
> > > Thanks to everyone who helped me with this problem, espcially  Gustin 
who
> > > discovered that the cause was that /home was 100% full.   Things work
> > > perfectly now.
> > >
> > > Robin

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