Downtime this afternoon

Undertoad • Sep 13, 2002 2:07 pm
I blew a command and ran out of space on a device. There is nothing wrong with the Cellar database. Enjoy the rest of your day.
juju • Sep 13, 2002 3:31 pm
What command did you mistype?
verbatim • Sep 13, 2002 4:49 pm
[root@cellar /]# rm -rf *? :D
Undertoad • Sep 13, 2002 7:18 pm
No biggie, I was doing a quick full backup to disk to write a few CDRs for offsite backup purposes. I wrote the output to /tmp forgetting that /tmp is a separate, smaller partition.

There's a reason why you theoretically put /tmp on a separate partition. It's so that you don't fill the root partition if you run a command that eats all your disk space. But that "good reason" doesn't fly if your critical apps need space in /tmp!