Or you just have some quality nagios monitoring setup so it alerts you on disk space. Or even a log watch email that you look at from time to time.
I've never been locked out of any system in the last ten years because of space issues. Though I would find out why something is so chatty to make messages useless. That sounds like something that needs its on file that gets rolled frequently if it is indeed that chatty. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2013, at 5:07 PM, "David R. Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- -- 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.
