[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root partition?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 @ 16:27 -0400, Michael Horton said:

> solaris 8, 9, 10 reserve enough space so that root can log into a sun
> box and delete files.
> 
> this appies to the root partition and may not apply to other partitions
> (such as mounted oracle/san partitions).
> 
> the freespace variable is also tunable and can be increased to suit your
>   site's specific needs.

The problem is that a lot of programs will certainly hang or even crash
if their path fills up, and rooting everything at / makes this far more
likely.

Just because the OS doesn't crash and root can fix it doesn't mean its a
good idea to leave yourself open to that kind of problem.

In a way, I'd like to use a large root just to avoid some of the hassle.

However, in practice the problems caused by this almost always make me
regret doing it.

A lot depends on exactly what your server is used for of course.

Even on Windows servers, I've saved myself a lot of hassle by moving
things which commonly overflow their drives away from C:.



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