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 1S2gz7-0002uf-Pp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:42:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00850E091B; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:41:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EBA9E091B for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so2651208wgb.4 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:40:53 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.180.24.7 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.24.7; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.180.24.7 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.24.7]) by 10.180.24.7 with SMTP id q7mr47228320wif.14.1330512053348 (num_hops = 1); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:40:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=M0kT+339R+6AJArOTY1pF/i1nmNjfe0Bp6vHCd0At0w=; b=x5YiAnnBXx/zT2ec2VJzdNlDj57rWbwUIjiAStxSD2Oog5Fnpj0w25zvDDMJ8TAjbQ uDl6bE5qEYQAPGoqq5pk04wJ0XxWDEEcGyUsrnJhoW8BTh0PL8bHMbCQfozUxM5vKK4P ze+MiJ5HLVkRW02LHL6wbD8WDLSahqTQZxwzc= Received: by 10.180.24.7 with SMTP id q7mr37598215wif.14.1330512053277; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:40:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id df3sm34451214wib.1.2012.02.29.02.40.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:40:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:40:33 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! Message-ID: <20120229124033.071ed7d6@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120229095719.59fe466d@digimed.co.uk> References: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> <20120228132712.6df1ca07@digimed.co.uk> <20120229002500.6d2ab8a9@weird.wonkology.org> <20120229112945.73867e57@khamul.example.com> <20120229095719.59fe466d@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 68825b50-4443-4038-ac55-7892dd0f3d51 X-Archives-Hash: d757cb9b9cea9561bcf45942f9055081 On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:57:19 +0000 Neil Bothwick 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