Daniel Woods grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Guntner wrote:
> >
> > No, but it was almost as good. <sheepish grin> I forgot that /var/spool
> > would need to be umounted before /var could be....
>
> Umm... a little detail you neglected to mention before.
Um, yea. I've been banging my head against the wall for that one since I
realized it. I had completely forgotten about /var/spool being mounted,
and couldn't figure out why the bloody thing kept telling me that /var was
busy. Duh.
> Everyone made the assumption that /var was the only partition
> under /var, since /var/spool is unusual to use.
Not as unusual as you might think. :-) I've seen a number of *NIX sites
which do that. Mostly ones with *lots* of users (and/or an active news
spool with a full feed), granted. :-) I do run fetchnews so that I don't
have to put up with lag when I use my news reader, and there have been
times in the past when someone flooded a newsgroup to the point that my
/var partition filled up. So, calling on my previous *NIX experience from
other systems, I set up a separate /var/spool. That way, if it happens in
the future, I only end up with a full /var/spool, and my /var (with all of
its logs and so on) is left intact and with plenty of free space.
> Next time, hopefully someone will post their "df -k" output,
> which would have (in this case) quickly been made obvious ;)
Here's to hoping! :-) Of course, if I had been paying attention, I would
have known what the problem was and wouldn't have posted that idiot
question in the first place. <sheepish grin again>
--Dave
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