05 sep 01
My linux box has been conquered. For now.
yeah, yesterday, my feisty lil bugger of a linux box decided to go menopausal on me and crap out. why? i’m still not exactly sure. /var, which has its own partition, ran up to 100% (i think), so i deleted some files and expected everything to be ok. well, it was still screwed up. ‘df’ showed the /var partition to be only 75% full, yet i couldn’t write to it. something was wrong, and my best guess is that the FAT was screwed up somehow.
anyhow, my solution (suggested by someone from a linux help channel on irc) was to install a secondary hdd, partition it with cfdisk, make an ext2fs partition with mke2fs, copy the screwy /var over to the secondary hdd, and edit /etc/fstab to point /var to the new hdd.
also, the new hdd is 8 gigs, which means i’ll have space for pretty much anything on the server. (this is the hdd from my mom’s old computer — the one i busted up with static. :P )
and besides that, i fixed up my iptables rules to secure things.