> I look at it in exactly the opposite way - it fills me with joy to > see that something has gone wild and filled a partition, and I didn't > even notice, as everything I'm doing is elsewhere, not being bothered. > [Turn on process accounting, and do a few full builds, and /var/account > will soon take over whatever space you have allowed it to occupy.]
I stopped using many partitions on my BSD servers (except OpenBSD router where I use defaults), and my Rock64 type devices have only 1 partition (plus tmpfs etc); but for those Aarch64 devices that's how the image comes. It's interesting though that my (FreeBSD) ZFS server has many mount points because of various datasets. So, I decreased the OS partitions generally but more than made up for it in datasets. -Joel