Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:57:19 +0000
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:29:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
> > It means there's no single sane default anymore. On my servers I set
> > reserved space to 100M or so as that's what I need. I reckon the
> > average person should keep it to somewhat larger than the biggest
> > single file you expect to store on that file system.
> 
> Do you mean the biggest single file you expect root to store on that
> filesystem? Is there any point in reserving space for root on a
> filesystem root does not need to write to, such as /home?
> 
> 

No, I mean the biggest file.

When $LUSER fills up his drive it can be that root is the only user
that can properly mount and access the filesystem. So whatever the
$LUSER was doing that filled up the drive needs to be undone by root,
probably by shuffling stuff around.

There are other cases where root might want some reserved space too,
but fixing full drives is the only case I've ever encountered. 

-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com