From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MEUKr-0001hk-Nn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:23:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C3CF1C012; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A011C012 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1060162ewy.34 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:23:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=g5tt+JVMMUwc9cEsRrqD3V6F8ZD0RIV0bwIweaU6Z5o=; b=XAa42PLV+ityDnPqAnkeieir06cs0ZweyUuoJOHsYf2u50xGMvktDcY1Szuc3tpU8B ezbp70fucQjV51B+wygwLsQU0+4jAvFREV9qjtQtE2PPnxIT1Ql4KRY5PE/V/ZjFJlOu BIHGAFhT/BQCf32TswuU5HJdpoYMD2vfrL87w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=BO8pW0MA2vn3CciWvBV3IGeoa6n43UgJskurSv6zDc71UlPknjXhr/XZCuquNxM2xA ad0H/8S3fsv2Ir5Dt4huLV7o8gIAuBSOPpC2lG9/5/y0DN4hd/DGHVos2N285lHygYCD v88DFkmNKOhwh6logsfrzgjq7VWPGmqWPxe9I= Received: by 10.210.19.7 with SMTP id 7mr2112827ebs.85.1244665354709; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm10343eyf.48.2009.06.10.13.22.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:22:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on / Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:21:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906102140.13079.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <4A300E83.8060505@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A300E83.8060505@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906102221.01985.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6d2a1e6b-e829-41e0-b606-ed004084727a X-Archives-Hash: d30d646445dd6d4cc17904487e9e5f81 On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? As much as you need. There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you. > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: > >> I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did > >> not respond well when network connection was lost. My > >> /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message > >> repeated tens of millions of times. > > > > Well, that's the reason you should put /var on its own partition/logical > > volume. > > > > Bye... > > > > Dirk -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com