On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 10:21, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > 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. I never knew that either actually. :) I run a small server that, among other things, hosts a mirror of the unstable branch of Debian. All in all, it's got an 8 gb drive. So it fills up once every week or two. :) For the most part, there aren't too many problems. Everything keeps running, you just might lose a few emails and a few uploads (if you run an ftp server or the such). I've had the same problem on my desktop a few times, and the worst case scenario was losing my preferences for gnome and evolution. I've never had any really hard crashes due to it though. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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