To Howard. Yea sometimes the simple answer is to do df -h :). I had one yesterday that after an hour figured out the nic was running half duplex with tons if collisions. Shoulda picked up on that sooner.
As to Curt I agree. Back when home was where people wrote to people wanted to save that. But I cannot count how many times extra partitions has bit me. But maybe one hand where it saved me. I haven't made a machine with more than those three in many years. Always seemed I was having to scarily shrink one partition to add to another when I had the 7 partition layout. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: OK, I've never understood this. When I first got into Linux I was creating a partition for every-silly-thing. A magnificent Unix/Linux guru friend/co-worker, who'd already made several kernel contributions, smacked me down. He said any good Linux system only needs three partitions on the hard disk: 1. /boot - big enough for several versions of the kernel 2. swap - twice the resident RAM 3. / - everything else I fully expect to be flamed for this, but I can also say I've never run into the issue that just clobbered Howard. No criticism, express or implied is meant; Howard's dealing with a system he inherited. I understand why multiple partitions were initially used; it used to be quite possible to fill up the /var partition as an attack on a system. These days it's a whole lot harder to do something like that. Yes, changing the topic: What's the reason for so many partitions? Curt On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > Would you believe.... > > /var is full. > > ~!@#$%^& > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > nlug-talk+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
