Steve Bertrand writes:
> I am not in any which way certain changing major revision numbers
> will affect the file system in any which way. I am also not very
> knowledgeable in regards to inodes, but I do know that they can
> run out before disk space does.
It is my understanding that is certainly possible. However, it
is usually limited to a small set of well-known cases of that
generate many small files; the canonical example is a news server
(e.g. inn) though a mail server (or the database back-end thereto)
might also qualify.
> Off the top of my head, with no testing or researching behind me,
> what happens if:
>
> - stop mysqld
> - note perms of filesystem
> - cp -R /var/db /another/location/with/space
> - rm -r /var/db/*
> - fsck /dev/location-of-var
Ahem - dismount partition before fsck, yes?
Robert Huff
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