Subject: Re: /sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdb12
From: david wright (dwright5@nyc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 10:40:43 MST
On Friday 18 January 2002 12:30, you wrote:
,... If /var is part of your only / partition, then you no longer
> have any space on your drive, and this process will bring the box down
> with it. If /var was on it's own partition, say 500MB, it could only
> write 500MB worth of log entries and stop, thus protecting your system
> as a whole.
>
> Hope this helps.
-excellent advice, - thanks again - david
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