System Administration
Tools for the toolbox
Monday, December 30, 2002Cleaning
One of the systems I watch over decided to get uppity and use all of the disk space devoted to member files. The system in question was part of a migration during one of our previous acquisitions, and is not exactly well-integrated with the rest of the customer management systems. In other words, there was no routine to delete the directories and files of defunct member accounts. Complicating the problem was Network Appliance's snapshot technology, which kept the files on disk until I deleted the snapshots that referred to them. The NetApp snapshot is basically a collection of hard links. [note: insert description of UNIX file handling here.]4:31:46 PM # Google It!
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