Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ 3] Var Partition Full Warning for newbies

[elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Wayne Sagar wrote:

} After finally finding out (I hope) what was causing my telnet access to fail and also finding out what is involved in the process of fixing it, once it goes the way it did... (var partition full... full of error logs mostly) which apparently is going to involve removing the drive from the RaQ, mount it in on another unix machine, clear the disk space and reinstall it in the RaQ .. all of this, hopefully without trashing the entire disk...
}
} My question/thought is why didn't Cobalt put a warning
} *somewhere* in the documentation for those of us who
} were unaware of the problem? It would seem that this is
} a bomb waiting to go off on ANY RaQ that has an
} administrator who

We've got a little hack - we're talking simple here - of a script
that we install on our Cobalts. We run it from cron nightly. It will
give you a heads up on this kind of thing.

	ftp://ftp.webokay.com/pub/disk_usage.sh