Hi,
yesterday I noticed a sytem freeze of my grml HD installation on my Thinkpad. After a little time of puzzling I detected a full (100%) root partition :/ I thougt: Who the f*** has filled up the (before) remaining 2 GB of space? -> It was a default enabled? backup job (backup-manager?) who backed up /home /etc and some other stuff in /backup :(
In principle (automatic) backups is a good cause and this default enabled backup job is well meaning but as we see in this example it could be problematic.
Backing up on same physical disk doesn't make lots of sense anyway.
Conclusio: I won't enable such probably space/resource consuming automatic tasks per default.
p.s.: I certainly have a (central) backup solution via server ;)
* Robert Zöhrer robert.zoehrer@pronet.at [20070105 10:15]:
yesterday I noticed a sytem freeze of my grml HD installation on my Thinkpad. After a little time of puzzling I detected a full (100%) root partition :/ I thougt: Who the f*** has filled up the (before) remaining 2 GB of space? -> It was a default enabled? backup job (backup-manager?) who backed up /home /etc and some other stuff in /backup :(
In principle (automatic) backups is a good cause and this default enabled backup job is well meaning but as we see in this example it could be problematic.
Backing up on same physical disk doesn't make lots of sense anyway.
Conclusio: I won't enable such probably space/resource consuming automatic tasks per default.
They aren't enabled by default unless you specify something different inside grml2hd. :)
The script remove-packages-server provides the following dialog within grml2hd:
| Which packages would you like to keep? | | Some packages are useful only for server systems. Some other | packages provide cron jobs you probably do not want to run. It is | recommended to remove those packages. | [...]
So just run remove-packages-server on your system and make sure you remove all the packages you definitely don't need.
regards, -mika-
Michael Prokop schrieb:
- Robert Zöhrer robert.zoehrer@pronet.at [20070105 10:15]:
| Which packages would you like to keep? | | Some packages are useful only for server systems. Some other | packages provide cron jobs you probably do not want to run. It is | recommended to remove those packages. | [...]
oh yes .. it seems I installed grml at that time too hasty so I overlooked this major step
So just run remove-packages-server on your system and make sure you remove all the packages you definitely don't need.
done that .. I also run 'grml2hd-utils' which seems to be new(er) and looks to be very useful for quick setup modification :)
Robert
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