[K12OSN] K12LTSP 6 server requirement

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Mon Jun 11 18:15:59 UTC 2007


You should be able to boot 'rescue' mode and chroot...and scrub the 
/var/<logfiles> from there...no?


> Now a better question is: 
> 
> Why have /var in a separate partition to begin with? 
> 
> Answer: Because _IF_ a process blows up and spews log file data from
> hell (I've seen this happen) and /var is on the same partition as /,
> when  / fills up the system hard locks and dies and can't be reopened
> even in runlevel 1 (even root must be able to write to the drive just a
> single byte in RL 1). 




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