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The Night of the Living Files

Scary movies for teenagers and database administration tasks share some common traits. Usually, the movie starts with a group of teens making unwise choices. Maybe you, as a DBA, are no longer a teenager, but you shouldn’t underestimate your ability to do the same.

$ sudo su -
Darrera entrada: ds jun 2 14:43:53 UTC 2018 des de a a pts/0
[root@mysql ~]# cd /var/lib/mysql
[root@mysql mysql]# df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 38G 35G 3G 92% /
[root@mysql mysql]#

Back to the movie…today is just another regular day. Checking Jira (or whatever your ticketing system is), answering emails and phone calls. Maybe a couple of meetings. And in the meantime, you will perform some critical tasks on the most important systems for your company. Just the usual stuff!

[root@mysql mysql]# ls -l *.log
ls: cannot access *.log: No such file or directory
[root@mysql mysql]# ls -l *log*
-rw-r-----. 1 …
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