Hello Howard,
It doesn't hurt to have a separate /var and /var/log partition. At least then you can go trim logs, or errant web stuff (which I have seen happen). It is a bit more of a problem when initially loading the box, but that is likely not a major problem. You might be able to add another drive and move a few partitions over, instead of reloading everything. I am sure Curt and some of the other guys could weigh in on that. You could even write a routine (without loading nagios) to flag when things are getting a bit tight. With the size of the drives being much larger in recent years I have certainly taken the shortcut of not making all of the partitions. That has also bit me on occasion. I would think (hope) you could still log in as root and do some damage control. At least with some of the distributions I have dealt with they will have a small amount of reserve. Dave On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 17:16 -0600, Howard White wrote: > On 03/01/2013 04:49 PM, Kevin Hart wrote: > > 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 > > Oh but we have had this discussion many times in NLUG and it does come > down to a matter of taste. The case was made to isolate /var or even > create /var/log so that when a wayward process went jabberwakky, one > could clear /var/log without trashing other file systems. > > Is it safe to say that linux systems have become less likely to trash > out entire disks when partitions fill up? > > 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.
