[NTLUG:Discuss] /var out of space....help please

[Steve Baker]

"./aal" wrote:
> 
> Mandrake7.1
> K6III-400
> 192MB
> ALI AladinV
> 
> I have a strange problem...
> I am getting numerous errors about /var/(something) being out of space
> I can ls as any user and see plenty of space[250MB left on that part.]
> I have looked on deja.com and MDK support histories to no avail
> I am getting strange errors from logrotate:
> /var/log/various_logs_.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz...... on and on : file not found
> 
> (10-16-2000)
> df:
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5             988M  238M  700M  25% /
> /dev/hda1              91M   10M   76M  12% /boot
> /dev/hda7             1.0G  740M  242M  75% /home
> /dev/hda8             2.9G  2.4G  297M  89% /usr
> /dev/hda9             3.3G  2.7G  511M  84% /opt
> /dev/hda10            494M  9.2M  459M   2% /tmp
> /dev/hda11            380M  258M  102M  72% /var
> /dev/hdb5             1.6G  1.4G  186M  88% /hdb/usr
> /dev/hdb6             1.4G  1.0G  318M  77% /hdb/opt
> /dev/hdb8             213M  129M   73M  64% /hdb/home
> /dev/hdd1             2.9G  1.3G  1.5G  47% /hdd

I don't know the answer to your question - but I have one of my own.

Why do you have so many partitions?  I generally end up with
one 'system' partition and one 'user' partition.  With things
chopped up the way they are, you'll presumably have a situation
where there is plenty of space left in one partition and yet you
are desperately short in another.  That's a really tough thing
to fix - but with one large system partition, whichever area needs
the space can have it.

This isn't a criticism - I'm just interested in the decision
process that got you there...or is this some Mandrake thing?

SuSE seems to just generate maximally large single partitions
unless you specifically tell it to do otherwise.

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