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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