Re: [cobalt-users] HELP! /var full and can't login...

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 30 August 2002 18:50, Oleg Volkov wrote:
> > Did a liitle diggin and found out
> > that our /var partition is full - 100%
>
> I really hate this practise to break disk into
> fix size partitions ( /,/usr,/var,etc).
> You will always suffer with one of them full !
> The solution is to leave full space for /
>
That may be a (M$) solution for a partition getting fulll, but does have other 
disadvantages, and should be discouraged, particularly on a server.
One corrupted partition and everything on the hard drive is gone.

The issue starts out with Cobalt, making such small partitions.
We made partitions the Cobalt way years ago when you had small hard disk.
Synlinks are not the answer, they slow the server down.

We always use bigger partitions than Cobalt, even on new RaQs.
We use a custom restore CD, Yes, we apply it to NEW RaQs.
   We make the CD so it includes all the updates (patches)
   Actually it is faster than taking a new RaQ and 
   applying the patches 1 by 1. 
   Plus, once started,  it runs on its own, no operator intervention required.
  
We set the / partition to 2 GB, versus Cobalt 750 MB.
We set the /var partition to 1 GB versus Cobalt 200 MB.
   These values may be selected, (before the CD is built)

We DO NOT have partition trouble!!!!

It may be noted that modern Linux distros actually have 
LVM (Logical Volume Managers)
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Gerald
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