From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 19 18:58:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA29691 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA29680 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xYMhg-0007OG-00; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:50:52 -0800 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:50:16 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Terry Lambert cc: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, craig@ProGroup.COM, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? In-Reply-To: <199711192300.QAA06547@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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