[Gllug] Wiping free space.

[Rich Walker]

On 29/12/2009 10:30, JLMS wrote:

> If you do something like that in your / filesystem, then yes, you will
> see all kind of weird behaviour.
> 
> If you do that anywhere else, most likely it would only affect
> applications writing there, so just stop any applications using that
> filesystem prior to do what you suggest.

We have regular fun from /var filling up. Typical symptom is that you
can't log-in from kdm/gdm - it accepts the password, but fails to start
your desktop...

As a result, now /var/tmp is usually tmpfs, and /var/log in a separate
partition.

cheers, Rich.

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