All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by keeperofdakeys on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:33PM (#26585688)

I find that either a server needs more space, or has files that can be deleted. For the former you just increase the disk space, since most things are VMs these days and increasing space is easy. For the latter you can usually delete enough files to get the service back up before you start the proper cleanup.

If you really need some reserve space (physical server), I'd much rather store it in a vg (or zfs/btrfs subvolume). Will you remember the file exists at 2am? What about the other admins on your team?

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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by bastawhiz on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:42PM (#26587580)

> Will you remember the file exists at 2am?

As someone who has been woken up at 2am for this exact issue, emphatically yes. I would much rather be back in bed than trying to Google the command to find large files on disk.

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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by cbo100 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:15PM (#26586233)

> Will you remember the file exists at 2am? What about the other admins on your team?

Hopefully if you were doing something like this it would be part of your standard incident response runsheet/checklist.

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