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

[Steve Baker]

Richard Cobbe wrote:
> 
> Lo, on Wednesday, October 18, Steve Baker did write:
> 
> > Why do you have so many partitions?

> For a single user system, having lots of different partitions probably
> doesn't make that much sense, although it's not that big a problem.  (Most
> problems of the sort you described above can be fixed with a clever, if
> messy, application of symbolic links.)

Well, yes - but it must get *extremely* messy.
 
> I think I started out the many-partitions route, ~5 years ago, because I
> thought that was how most "official" Unix systems worked, and part of the
> reason I was messing around with Linux was to understand "official"
> Unices.  I've pretty much just kept on doing it that way.

I don't think I've ever seen the system areas split up like that under
IRIX or Solaris...I don't think it's common - which is why I remarked
upon it.

> In addition, some backup utilities, like cddump
> (http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/cddump.html), tend to work at their best when
> you apply them to entire partitions, rather than just directory trees.

I guess so.  (I don't backup any of the system disk areas - I have a system
partition and a user partition and only back up the user area...although I
do 'mirror' important files in /etc into /home/system/etc before I run
backups).

>  In
> particular, cddump doesn't do incremental backups on arbitrary directories,
> only on partitions.  This is probably more of a concern with larger
> installations, though.

I guess so.

Most of the systems I use at home and at work are only in the 1 to ~5 users
range.
 
> Just for the shock value :-) , here's my current setup:
> 
> [minbar:~]$ df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5               155545     86832     60683  59% /
> /dev/sda1                31079      9161     20314  31% /boot
> /dev/sda6              1383520    413824    899416  32% /home
> /dev/sda8               822184    314084    466336  40% /opt
> /dev/sda2              2632772   2083184    415848  83% /usr
> /dev/sda7               147766     39040    101097  28% /var
> /dev/hda1              2100360   1704364    395996  81% /win95
> /dev/hda2               140000     21210    111561  16% /debian
> /dev/hda3                46668        16     44243   0% /debian/tmp
> /dev/hda5               964500     39968    875536   4% /debian/var
> /dev/hda6               917072        20    870468   0% /debian/opt
> /dev/sda9              1921156    581908   1241656  32% /debian/usr
> /dev/sda10             1454668        56   1380716   0% /debian/home
> 
> Yep, *three* OSes.  (Well, two are Linux, but you know what I mean.)

...and the other one doesn't count as an OS.  :-)

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