Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:58:24 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists_nada@tx.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var full Message-ID: <18522.18912.841639.130205@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4859FC8F.5020308@ibctech.ca> References: <EA09BDBE04BB7B81413DB590@Macintosh.local> <20080619035949.GB8205@shepherd> <DB82314EA03D57CB11849EA5@Macintosh.local> <4859FC8F.5020308@ibctech.ca>
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Steve Bertrand writes: > I am not in any which way certain changing major revision numbers > will affect the file system in any which way. I am also not very > knowledgeable in regards to inodes, but I do know that they can > run out before disk space does. It is my understanding that is certainly possible. However, it is usually limited to a small set of well-known cases of that generate many small files; the canonical example is a news server (e.g. inn) though a mail server (or the database back-end thereto) might also qualify. > Off the top of my head, with no testing or researching behind me, > what happens if: > > - stop mysqld > - note perms of filesystem > - cp -R /var/db /another/location/with/space > - rm -r /var/db/* > - fsck /dev/location-of-var Ahem - dismount partition before fsck, yes? Robert Huff
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