/ (root) partition full (now dead)

[Gordon R. Keehn]

Gregory Pittman wrote:
> 
> 
> One thing I think it tells you is something about how to divide your 
> distro onto different partitions. It can be very hard to track down a 
> problem like this with your whole distro on one partition, and that 
> doesn't matter if it's FC or Suse.
> 
> Greg
> 
It was on several partitions, and several subtrees of /var were linked 
to a high-capacity USB drive.  I learned, by trial and error, what 
directories had to be available before the USB drive was mounted.  I 
recovered all that I needed to from /home, but much of what was left was 
specific to the then-current configuration, and therefore not worth saving.
    Cheers,
Gordon