Disk 100% busy

[Mike Jakubik]

On Sun, October 16, 2005 1:53 pm, Will Saxon wrote:

> I completely forgot that I had the partition mounted 'sync'. That might
> explain things a bit, huh.


Do NOT mount the partition async, you are asking for filesystem corruption.

> I am using qmail - the author indicates that softupdates is not
> recommended. However, I am going to give it a shot and see if I start
> losing mail as he suggests may happen.

Do yourself a big favor, and switch from this historic piece of software
to something like Postfix.