On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
> I screwed up a long tar command and wound up writing a tarball into my
> root directory instead of one on a much larger partition, and it filled up
> that partition, producing a disk full error. I deleted the offending file
> and rebooted and the system appears to be working fine, no message log
> errors or anything.
>
> My question is this: Can I do damage to the file system by filling up the
> disk accidentally that way? Obviously if I had really hosed the partition
> I would know it, but if I rebooted and everything works well, does that
> mean everything is OK? How can I tell for sure that I have not created a
> problem that will appear over time?
shouldn't be a problem. i've done the same thing on a number of
occasions, and i've never ha XB^%#&((& -- FATAL DISK ERROR -- NO CARR
besides, as i recall, you can never *really* fill up a filesystem --
they're designed to reserve a small percentage of space for the
super-user. see "man mke2fs", the "-m" option.
rday
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