On Saturday 28 May 2005 22:37, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Personally, I would rebuild the system. Resizing partitions is just > too risky to deal with. My servers all have less than 10 G root (/) > partitions. The OS really doesn't need that much. I have /var/log and > /tmp on separate partitions so the system doesn't come to a grinding > halt when those fill up without me knowing (4 GB on each should be > plenty.) Since you said you won't use /home (as much) or don't expect > it to fill up, you can keep it small ... OR ... use that as your MP3 > storage. Whatever you do, I would keep your MP3 storage on its own > separate partition. As you noticed, having it as part of /var, you now > have a full /var and the system will more than likely start generating > errors because it can't save anything in /var/log. If you insist on > having /var/shared/music, have it on it's own little partition (or large > partition, whatever the case might be.) This way it can fill up to 100% > while /var is still able to continue to serve the OS in general. Heh. Yes. Live and learn. The system stopped delivering e-mail after it was full of music. It took me a couple of hours to figure that out. I ended up deleting something like 10GB of music files which I had spent the past couple of days ripping from my CD collection (including -- sadly -- a few Tom Waits tunes that I can't get anywhere else now). I think that a separate partition -- /music, I suppose -- is probably the way to go. -- Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com
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