Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:54:15 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / partition full Message-ID: <8DEA63C1-DECF-49FC-9DC6-F4FBA449EEFC@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <20090313084625.426d6729.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <49BA44A1.2080800@maydias.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903131333330.31755@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090313084625.426d6729.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Mar 13, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>: >> >> good lesson to NOT make multiple partitions :) > > And when a rogue app fills up /var and kills 4 other apps that could > have kept going ... are we then learning conflicting lessons? > > Enterprise-class servers should have many partitions to separate > different > functions and protect apps from each other. This newbie admin agrees with this. Having a separate /var partition, in particular, has saved my bacon several times, at least until I figured out how to turn mysql-bin files off. The /var partition was at 100%, but the server kept going so I could diagnose and find the problem. Whew! -- John
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