Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4i : webserver down

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 18 December 2003 10:20 am, Dave's List Addy wrote:

> Interesting point Jeff. We have seen this problem crop up every now
> and then. Any solution you have found??

The hard way would be to rebuild your RaQ with an OSRCD munged to create 
a /tmp partition.  No, I've never done that but I'd guess some people 
on the list (Gerald comes to mind) could probably figure it out.

The easier but perhaps much more dangerous way would be to move /tmp 
from /home (where it's symlinked to on the two RaQs I just checked it 
on) to /var, which doesn't have quotas set up on it, but, which may or 
may not have enough space on it.  In my epxerience this is dangerous, 
even after moving things off /var, and I wouldn't do it.

Looking at Linux in general, rather than RaQs in particular, this is one 
reason why Maildir format for email boxes (as opposed to mbox, which 
RaQs use) was invented; Maildir format does not require temporary mail 
files during download.

Jeff
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