/ (root) partition full (now dead)

[Gordon Keehn]

Gregory Pittman wrote:

> One thing I think it tells you is something about how to divide your 
> distro onto different partitions. It can be very hard to track down a 
> problem like this with your whole distro on one partition, and that 
> doesn't matter if it's FC or Suse.
>
> Greg
>
It was on several partitions, and several subtrees of /var were linked 
to a high-capacity USB drive.  I learned, by trial and error, what 
directories had to be available before the USB drive was mounted.  I 
recovered all that I needed to from /home, but much of what was left was 
specific to the then-current configuration, and therefore not worth 
saving. 
   Cheers,
Greg