Well, perhaps "old school" has different meanings to different people.
:-) I was referring to the UNIX "tools" philosophy in which each
program
has a very specific use, similar to qmail (the original, unmodified
qmail, that is). And this is usually the direction I take when looking
for "tools" to accomplish some task. But I suppose this philosophy
doesn't really apply quite as much nowadays.
I must say, though, I've always managed to anticipate the storage
needs
of my servers so running low on or (even worse) running out of disk
space has never been a problem. So I've never had to research such
"tricks" to get things to work within those types of constraints. Call
me quirky, but that's part of being a sysadmin... Yes? ;-)
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as do I, but how often do you get to start with no servers at all? I
think there's this one sysadmin running around setting up servers
badly, and we all get hired in after him to clean up....i've got one
db server with a 3-gig root partition and a 5-gig tmp partition, and
all the programs aren't using the tmp partition, using the /tmp
directory. and the root filesystem is 90% full. Gaaaaa!
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