Changing volume limits

Ran into a problem with my /var volume reaching 90 percent, and not
allowing changes to crontab. Dumping logs and mail cleared it out.

Isn't there a way to change the limit above 90 percent before refusing
writes?

TIA,

Joe

Hi Joe,

Try

tune2fs -m 5 /dev/...

replace 5 with the % you wish to change limit to ..also need device
name for /var as last argument

Kind Regards

Stuart

jmp@jcck.net (Joe Pollard) wrote in message news:<ad5b7ce3.0312170614.227fcaee@posting.google. com>...
> Ran into a problem with my /var volume reaching 90 percent, and not
> allowing changes to crontab. Dumping logs and mail cleared it out.
>
> Isn't there a way to change the limit above 90 percent before refusing
> writes?
>
> TIA,
>
> Joe

jmp@jcck.net (Joe Pollard) wrote in message news:<ad5b7ce3.0312170614.227fcaee@posting.google. com>...
> Ran into a problem with my /var volume reaching 90 percent, and not
> allowing changes to crontab. Dumping logs and mail cleared it out.
>
> Isn't there a way to change the limit above 90 percent before refusing
> writes?
>
> TIA,
>
> Joe

Hi,

I´m not sure if this is Your problem, but I found a file called
/etc/security/limits.conf. Maybe there is an entry.
Another workaround would be to edit ~/.vimrc and insert

set directory=/tmp,/,.

or other directorys (I suppose, Your EDITOR is set to vi).

regards

Thorsten

Are you using something to keep your log file sizes down? logrotate
works fairly well:

http://iain.cx/src/logrotate/

Andy

--------------------------
Andy Smith, MCP
wasmith32@earthlink.net
--------------------------


Joe Pollard wrote:
> Ran into a problem with my /var volume reaching 90 percent, and not
> allowing changes to crontab. Dumping logs and mail cleared it out.
>
> Isn't there a way to change the limit above 90 percent before refusing
> writes?
>
> TIA,
>
> Joe