On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Honestly, I tend not to create separate partitions for separate mount points > these days. At least, not on personal systems. For servers, it's can be > beneficial to have /var separate from /, or /var/log separate from /var, or > /var/spool, or /var/lib/mysql, or what have you. But the biggest driver for > that, IME, is if one of those fills up, it can't take down the rest of the > host. >
The other big use case these days would be SSDs. I tend to have one SSD filesystem for root, and one SSD filesystem for everything else. That means a lot of bind mounts, but it all works. I'm not about to get into separate filesystems for random directories in var that tend to get big. -- Rich