I too have had this happen, but have since taken some insurance, namely:
a) Created a dummy file of +-500MB (if you can spare the space - hence
insurance, it all costs) in each partition.
b) Created a script that is run every couple of minutes to check the
available disk space. If space for a particular partition is low, I trash
the dummy file and email a warning to sysadmins... (I have caught a
number of problems this way).
Regards
Enrico
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
> I screwed up a long tar command and wound up writing a tarball into my
> root directory instead of one on a much larger partition, and it filled up
> that partition, producing a disk full error. I deleted the offending file
> and rebooted and the system appears to be working fine, no message log
> errors or anything.
>
> My question is this: Can I do damage to the file system by filling up the
> disk accidentally that way? Obviously if I had really hosed the partition
> I would know it, but if I rebooted and everything works well, does that
> mean everything is OK? How can I tell for sure that I have not created a
> problem that will appear over time?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Gary
>
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