Alex Walker wrote:
Things like boot process rarely break. Try something like filling up your root or tmp partition. That just seems to be a bit more common as far as problem scenarios go.
Thanks for the reply. I've recently started working for a large hosting company, so there's a reasonable amount of scope for anything that can go wrong going wrong at some point, so I wanted to be prepared in advance for as many eventualities as possible :)
*sigh* Good luck with the new job.
I've seen root partitions fill up a few times, but in my own experience we've always been able to get in and clear out some space before it's knocked the server over. I'll look into it a bit further tho.
One trick my manager's shown me, that you can use to keep things going while dealing with a root filesystem full is to use tune2fs to lower the f/s reserved space.
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