Yes... You hit on exactly the problem. When /var fills up your hosed. That is a good reason to have a separate var partition. you might be able to log in as root and move things off. Since it is on a common partition with everything else, someone else would have to chime in with a way to mount the disk and do damage control.
I would certainly have a look at the /var/log/ directory and see if someone made some unwanted contributions to your lack of disk space. Of course, unfortunately I have been known to take this short cut in the past too. Your Linux guru failed you. Dave On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 16:44 -0600, Curt Lundgren 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 [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.
