We do use the separate /var/log partition on our SUN, ESX, and other Unix servers so we don't have issues with the OS if it fills up. For a desktop or laptop, this isn't an issue.
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 13:05, Chris Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ding, plenty of good advice has been given on this thread. Contrary to > > popular belief, it's not required to partition everything out like /temp, > > /var, and /boot. I have yet to see a benefit of going through that much > > work, but to each his own. > > As far as I know this was only common when hard drives were smaller. > By combining multiple disks into one filesystem you could effectively > pretend you have a much larger disk, without the complications of > fakeRAID. > > I've seen it used in Amazon EC2 servers to prevent log files and > backups from overwhelming the disk space and preventing products from > functioning. As well as that fun situation where tar is backing up > the live product and the backups (resulting in backup files that > increase in size geometrically). > > -- > Registered Linux Addict #431495 > For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! > fsdev.net > 0x5f3759df.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
