[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root partition?

Michael Horton Michael.Horton at acntv.com
Wed Sep 28 15:27:29 CDT 2005


solaris 8, 9 ,10 will not crash with a full root partition!

sun recommends one large root partition and a swap partition!

your sun support provider can provide this information.

solaris 8, 9, 10 reserve enough space so that root can log into a sun
box and delete files.

this appies to the root partition and may not apply to other partitions
(such as mounted oracle/san partitions).

the freespace variable is also tunable and can be increased to suit your
  site's specific needs.

velociraptor wrote:
> I'm dealing with the annual IG audit here...
>
> We have been dinged on / containing /var.
>
> Given that / is 10GB it seems kind of specious (and
> no mail, web logs elsewhere, &c), but I need some
> "expert" spin to augment my argument.
>
> Anyone have any references to Solaris's resiliency to
> crashing due to a full root partitions?  Googling is not
> being all that helpful. Even Sun marketing foo would
> be a start.
>
> TIA--
> =Nadine=
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