Re: what if root partition or any other becomes full
On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:54:28AM -0400, Jason M. Harvey wrote:
> hi there!
>
> from time to time i've thought to ask this. i better ask before it's too
> late.
> i have two debian boxen - one server and one workstation. both have very
> small harddrives... both machines have one root partition that takes up
> the entire drive... with an extra drive in each which is used as extra
> space.
> any idea what would happed to my server if one last upload or one large
> email comes in and fills it up to 100% ?!? will it error-out and tell
> me, or would things get ugly and crash?
> as for my workstation, i am not as concered but would like to prevent a
> fatal crash.
> any thoughts?
If you use ext2 or ext3, normal user processes can not fill the entire
disk. There is 5% reserved for root. This means that when the disk fills
up, random processes may start to crash, but you will always be able to
log in as root to fix the ptoblems.
Frank
>
> tia,
> jason
>
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> Jason M. Harvey
> me@jharv.com
> http://www.jharv.com
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