Linux Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

Take a quick look in /var/log/ at the messages file:

$ ls -lh /var/log/messages-rw-------. 1 root root 179K Dec 11 16:18 /var/log/messages

It's not huge, but if you've got an incredibly small disk, this could be a massive problem.

Say you've completely run out of space on the /var/log partition—what happens?

Let's remind ourselves of an example VM's partition layout, noting the lack of a dedicated '/var' partition:

$ df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 38G 4.8G 33G 13% /devtmpfs 235M 0 235M 0% /devtmpfs 244M 0 244M 0% /dev/shmtmpfs 244M 4.5M 240M 2% /runtmpfs 244M 0 244M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup/dev/sda2 1014M 63M 952M 7% /boottmpfs 49M 0 49M 0% /run/user/1000

The quick answers to the preceding ...