On 18/08/07, David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, am I to infer from the lack of alternatives, that the only way to > control the size of a directory is to create a filesystem of the size I want > to restrice things to? > For that very reason it is recommended that /var (and specifically /var/log) be on a seperate partition. File a bug with the software that left the huge logfile (MythTV?), to have an option that will not log all that was not necessary. A logfile that fills a file system is bad, probably worse than whatever caused the crash. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/
