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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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