John E. Perry schreef:
jdd wrote:
,,, root have reserved area, normally to avoid such problem and always allow root login. but I beg if it's a root app that crashes and fills the disk, this don't work. ...
Why hasn't anyone yet advised the OP to put /tmp and /var onto a separate, dedicated partition? That would solve the whole problem without all these struggles.
I can't remember where I got that advice from --wasn't it on this list several years ago?
John Perry
When the thread started, it wasn't yet known that /tmp wasn't the problem but /var. Putting /tmp separate wouldn't have solved the problem, there would still have been other issues. If RAM is big enough, it may be a good idea to mount /tmp as tmpfs. It's not always suitable but it works for me. Putting /var separate may sound like a nice idea, but in my really humble opinion it is overkill except when you run a server. For a desktop machine, it's really not necessary to put /var separate. The problem discussed in this thread was probably just a fluke. To make good use of a lot of partitions, you'd have to use LVM, because else you would always have that problem that you allocated too much or too little space to a partition. -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org