With the root partition full it can be impossible to log in. If you are logged in as root at the time, don't log out.
The continuous error messages output to the system console can make the system console unusable. The error messages to system logs and cstm logs can cause /var to fill.
The rest depends on how your system is configured. As long as you have separate mountpoints for /usr /var /opt /tmp and /home it's often recoverable if you are quick. You must reboot after clearing the problem because the /etc/utmp file is likely to be corrupted and the system will have stopped System Accounting.
To get an idea of what might be affected:
Filling /var can be a lot more difficult to deal with.
Don't ever have entire / on disk, without the separate partitions for /var /tmp etc.
Example of good configuration :
This way, you will probably avoid complely crashed system caused by lack of disk space.
Don't chown e.g /oracledatabase to oracle user.
Rather make folder inside and mount your database mountpoints.
This way, if /oracledatabase disk subsystem fails, it can't write to /oracledatabase (since it's owned by root) and fill up / resulting in god knows what.
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I am new in ubuntu. Is root user disable in ubuntu? Also, is os partition default in ubuntu? I don't find any feature to create customize mount point to install OS.
Below is my current OS partition.
amirislam@blnidapp03:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used... (1 Reply)
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Greetings,
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My /var partition is almost utilized ... Here am not sure where to release space now
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# bdf /var
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol9 6144000 6142176 1824 100% /var
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/dev/sda2 77G 16G 75G 98% /
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Currently I am working in One of the webhosting company and I found
on one of my server "/home" partition is getting full say 105% usage...
But when I actually check the partition size using "du -h", exact partition
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I think I've filled up one of the partitions on my drive. I suspect that one of the applications I've been running has been spitting out junk files to this partition - most of which can be deleted. The problem is that I have no idea how to go look at what's on that partition and... (2 Replies)
We have SunOS 5.7 m/c. Following is the situation and problem what we are facing -
- The root partition was full.
- No login was possible on server (not from console also)
- M/c was power swithced off
- After this only console login is possible. FTP is possible. No telnet is possible.
I... (1 Reply)
We have SunOS 5.7 m/c. Following is the situation and problem what we are facing -
- The root partition was full.
- No login was possible on server (not from console also)
- M/c was power swithced off
- After this only console login is possible. FTP is possible. No telnet is possible.
I... (3 Replies)