Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:04:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bertrand" <steve@ibctech.ca> To: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists_nada@tx.rr.com> Subject: Re: /var full Message-ID: <1295.206.108.139.2.1213877094.squirrel@webmail.ibctech.ca>
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> > Steve Bertrand writes: > >> I am not in any which way certain changing major revision numbers >> will affect the file system in any which way. I am also not very >> knowledgeable in regards to inodes, but I do know that they can >> run out before disk space does. > > It is my understanding that is certainly possible. However, it > is usually limited to a small set of well-known cases of that > generate many small files; the canonical example is a news server > (e.g. inn) though a mail server (or the database back-end thereto) > might also qualify. > > >> Off the top of my head, with no testing or researching behind me, >> what happens if: >> >> - stop mysqld >> - note perms of filesystem >> - cp -R /var/db /another/location/with/space >> - rm -r /var/db/* >> - fsck /dev/location-of-var > > Ahem - dismount partition before fsck, yes? Well, of course as you please ;) Thanks for pointing out my mis-step. Steve
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