Full /home hoses a box

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>>I thought a full /home would be survivable. No?
> 
> You are correct.  Filling up /home, assuming taht /home doesn't have any
> weird symlinks going into it from elsewhere, would not bring down a box.
> Something else is likely wrong here.

Well that's good news/bad news. Guess I'll find out when I can get there.

>>What can I do to prevent this in the future? I'm loathe to use quotas
>>because some of the accounts need large amounts of space at various times.
>>
>>Any possible creative ideas to get the box to respond?
> 
> 
> rebooting it?  ;)

Yup, but I'd sure like to know the "root" cause? Bad part is this box is 
headless so if I can't get ssh to talk to me I may not be able to do 
anything but reboot and that will make diagnosis more difficult.

Thanks.

Michael