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

[./aal]

> > (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.

I have alot of partitions because the LFS HOWTO suggested it.
I keep alot of partitions because I did not want runaway procs to fill
up '/'. I will have errors about a full device before I have a hung
system. At least that is my plan...;'}

./aal