Re: [opensuse] The system crashes directly after login

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Clayton wrote:
Problem solved: I filled the partition with /tmp on it, so nothing
could be parked there. I found out when I tried running the sax2 man
page which crashed but gave me the info I needed
Interesting. I hadn't considered that a full /tmp partition would do
it. I don't have it on a separate partition on any of the systems I
run, so this never came up. I'll be tucking that bit of info away for
future use.

/tmp can fill up even if it's on the root partition...of course,
if that happens, then your root partition is full, too.

Personally, I don't like ANY unnecessary file I/O on my root
partition, so /tmp always gets its own partition

I/O is still I/O that has to be handled by the _disk_ not the
_partition_, so it matters not if /tmp is on it's own partition unless
it is also on a different disk.

Really?

So if the /tmp directory is corrupted, and it is on its
own partition (and therefore, a separate filesystem),
this corrupts the root filesystem how, exactly?


You weren't talking about corruption but only disk I/O. Disk corruption
is another matter. Disk I/O affects all partitions on the disk not just
one. If the disk is writing to a /tmp partition it _is_ going to affect
the / partition due to head movement etc.

Ken
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