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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:50:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, craig@ProGroup.COM, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Partitioning suggestions?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971119184734.28359B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711192300.QAA06547@usr01.primenet.com>

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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> >   I can't accept that idea of a "graceful" failure.  I don't know if there
> > are any "catastrophic" (ie. eaten e-mail, destroyed password
> > files, etc) failures in FreeBSD, due to full filesystems.  But the
> > so-called graceful failures are the real essence of this thread.  How do
> > you avoid them in the first place?
> 
> By not engaging in sysadm pilot error that results in filled drives.

  In what universe is this?  Point me to a mail server that you use, and
I will fill one or more filesystems for you.  Then when done, I will blame
it on your pilot error.

> > > That doesn't guarantee it.  What if your FS fills up with PID files?
> > 
> >   What would be creating pid files in /var/log?
> 
> In /var.

  The original poster, said to make /var/log a separate filesystem.
This goes along with my point, because it would eliminate the problem.

Tom




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