Daniel Woods grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Guntner wrote: > > > > No, but it was almost as good. <sheepish grin> I forgot that /var/spool > > would need to be umounted before /var could be.... > > Umm... a little detail you neglected to mention before.
Um, yea. I've been banging my head against the wall for that one since I realized it. I had completely forgotten about /var/spool being mounted, and couldn't figure out why the bloody thing kept telling me that /var was busy. Duh. > Everyone made the assumption that /var was the only partition > under /var, since /var/spool is unusual to use. Not as unusual as you might think. :-) I've seen a number of *NIX sites which do that. Mostly ones with *lots* of users (and/or an active news spool with a full feed), granted. :-) I do run fetchnews so that I don't have to put up with lag when I use my news reader, and there have been times in the past when someone flooded a newsgroup to the point that my /var partition filled up. So, calling on my previous *NIX experience from other systems, I set up a separate /var/spool. That way, if it happens in the future, I only end up with a full /var/spool, and my /var (with all of its logs and so on) is left intact and with plenty of free space. > Next time, hopefully someone will post their "df -k" output, > which would have (in this case) quickly been made obvious ;) Here's to hoping! :-) Of course, if I had been paying attention, I would have known what the problem was and wouldn't have posted that idiot question in the first place. <sheepish grin again> --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key
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