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Subject: Re: Root partition disk full question From: Bill Carlson <wcarlson@vh.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:56:07 -0500 (CDT) On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, M. Neidorff wrote: > I've done the same and had no problem--even as root. BTW, you don't have > to re-boot to see if everything is OK. I consider that a Windows thing > which linux doesn't need. The most you may need to do is unmount a > partition and fsck it after you are done deleting things. > I'll counter this, if you do manage to fill up the file system, it is not a bad idea to reboot if you can. Some services assume the disk will never be full and don't handle running out of space nicely. And they may or may not complain about the fact. Same thing goes for exhausting swap space, some services recover just fine, some just die, and some just don't work quite the same. Better to start from a fresh boot if you can. ===