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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers CentOS 6 ran out of space, need to reclaim it Post 303038179 by Neo on Tuesday 27th of August 2019 01:15:52 PM
Old 08-27-2019
The main problem with putting all the data on the same root partition when running a production database is that if the database directory gets very large and fills up the root partition, it is possible the system will not boot and / or critical root partition log files will not log.

When running databases like we do with very large binary transactions logs, the database directory gets very large very fast.

However, when on a separate partition and full, not on root, the system will boot and continue to log (syslog, etc).

That is a big plus for most system admins knowing that a full data partition will not crash the boot partition.

For me, it's nothing to do with "traditional unix".. I do it because I do not want a full db partition to effect the boot partition and since I have seen this problem many times, it's better to have the db crash than the entire system / server crash.. I can log into a crash due to a full db partition, but I cannot login to a system which will not boot due to a full root / boot partition.

So, for me, all my data for a big database is off the root / boot partition, always (for production). Same is true for my backup directory of mysql dumps.

(As Peasant says as well in his analysis ...)
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

installgrub

installgrub(1M)                                                                                                                    installgrub(1M)

NAME

       installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy

SYNOPSIS

       /sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device

       The installgrub command is an -only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.

       installgrub  installs  GRUB  stage  1  and  stage  2  files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
       installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.

       The installgrub command accepts the following options:

       -f

           Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.

       -m

           Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively.

       The installgrub command accepts the following operands:

       stage1

           The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.

       stage2

           The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.

       raw-device

           The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable.  For  disk
           devices,  specify  the  slice  where  the  GRUB  menu  file  is  located.  (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy disk, it is
           /dev/rdiskette.

       Example 1: Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice

       The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:

       example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 
                /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0

       Example 2: Installing GRUB on a Floppy

       The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:

       example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
       # mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
       # cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
       # umount /mnt
       # cd /boot/grub
       # /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette

       /boot/grub

           Directory where GRUB files reside.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Evolving                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       boot(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), kernel(1M), attributes(5)

       Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) overrides any boot manager currently installed on the machine. The system will always
       boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.

                                                                    24 May 2005                                                    installgrub(1M)
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