On Tuesday 07 August 2007 14:09, Dan Langille wrote: > On 7 Aug 2007 at 10:27, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Please ignore my previous message. My root directory is *full* on one > > of my test machines, so naturally all the regression tests died. At > > least the messages were reasonable when looking in detail at the > > errors ... > > If you want/need more HDD, I can get them to you.
Many thanks for your offer Dan. My problem is more the distribution of disk space, and what I consider *extremely* bad practice of distros of putting both temporary files (caches) as well as permanent valuable data in to /var. That practice makes it extremely difficult to do a decent backup of valuable data and not temporary cache files. For example /bin and /usr generally have important permanent data but /var has all different kinds of data. My basic problem is that I did not create a separate /var partition so that it goes by default in my 5GB / partition, which works pretty well until I have a production + test MySQL server and a PostgreSQL test server. Then my root partition gets quickly filled. In this case, it was rather fatal since it caused my production MySQL database to get corrupted just at the same time that I was bailing out of a badly broken SuSE distribution on my development machine (a bit of overload). IMO SuSE has shot themselves in the foot by being unwilling or incapable of releasing a production kernel that supports debugging -- this has been going on for more than 6 months. Though it was a pain switching distributions and not yet finished (I'm still searching for some of my favorite software or building it from scratch -- e.g. Qt4), it is a *great* pleasure to be able to get good debugger output again. Anyway, back to your offer of help. Not knowing much about PostgreSQL administration, I simply removed it from my affected system -- that liberated 1.3GB which is enough to keep my system functioning. I'm thinking about reloading it but moving the /var/lib/postgresql directory to my large /home partition and simply symlinking it. Do you think that will work? or do I need to dig into PostgreSQL administration to figure out how to really install the DB elsewhere? I suppose the best long term solution would be for me to learn how LVM works, but that will probably knock me out of Bacula for a week. What I really need is a full time sys admin that knows a lot of different systems. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
