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[Darryl Gregorash <raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Bos wrote:

> Op zondag 14 november 2004 22:40, schreef Colin Murphy:
>  
>
> > The unmounted version comes back. I can even write to the file, note the
> > file size:
> >        
> > <snip>
> It is a nice way to get "/" full...., when you expect a big sized partition to 
> be mounted on /data1 and it is not there.  If you now write lots of data 
> to /data1, it is written to the partition holding "/", which is most often 
> not so big...
This certainly is not his problem. If it were, there would be a lot more in that directory than just his little testfile.

Only one person that I recall has mentioned /var, and then no more has been said about it that I can recall. As I said to Colin in private email...


du -sh /var --max-depth=1

and then we can see just how much of that drive is full of things like logs.