Timothy Bolz wrote:
> Thanks.
You're welcome, as always.
> I should have asked this in my first post but you might know what is
> a good percentage of disk space not to go over for optimal
> performance. Is it below 90 or lower. I'm sitting at 85 now. Is
> this ok? And what if you do get up near 98 or 99 would I have seen
> my system locking up. Or will Linux manage to do ok.
If you get your disk 100% full, especially the root or /var, many
things will start to fail in weird ways. Don't do that. (-: Old BSD
documentation for the FFS ("Fast Filesystem", that's its name, not its
description -- it's dog slow by today's standards) recommended staying
below 90% for best performance. My experience with Linux EXT2 and
EXT3 is that it doesn't seem to matter. I've run my laptop for weeks
at a time with less than 30 MB free and no ill effects except that I
couldn't put more stuff on it.
> Can you delete the /var/log files and will they recreate themselves.
> I was thinking /var/log might be taking up a bunch of space. I read
> some where you should have a seperate /var partition for your logs
> then if /var gets full it doesn't bring down your system. I don't
> think I have to worry about this but If I was running a server I
> would consider it.
First of all, use du and check how big /var/log is. Don't mess with
it if it ain't broke. (-: Your Debian system should already have well
behaved log rotation processes, and I'd be surprised if /var/log is a
problem.
Deleting and recreating files in /var/log is tricky. Different
daemons have different rules for how they are told to switch from and
old log file to a new. Check the logrotate man page for some info,
the syslogd(8) man page, and the individual services' man pages too.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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