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On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Crute wrote: |
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> I have a 120GB drive with a 32M /boot a /10 GB / and the rest of the disk |
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> dedicated to /home. The setup works wonderfully for me. |
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Ah, but it is a disaster waiting to happen. If you fill your root partition |
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you'll have difficulty getting back into the box (you'll need your live cd to |
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chroot into your system and clean out the disk). |
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How can something like this happen? Syslog filling up /var/log. An influx of |
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spam filling /var/spool/mail. Never cleaning /usr/portage/distfiles but |
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continually downloading package updates. |
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The root partition is your key to accessing your box. You basically want to |
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have only static files on the root partition, not files that are in a general |
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state of flux. |
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