On 04/29/2013 12:17 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Matthew Chambers" <n...@grandcanyonham.info> > >> I am with McCracken on putting /var on a separate partition that was >> only a >> couple 100 MB so that if it got filled up it wouldn't blow the whole >> hard >> drive. This also made it easier to blow away those run away bloated >> logs >> without fear of messing up the rest of the system. > > As the professional sysadmin in the pile, I will note that while putting > /var on a partition is handy, in this case, what you want is right down > as far as putting /var/log on its own partition. > > The logs can block other useful stuff on /var, as well as stuff outside it.
I thought about that just after I sent it (especially since mysql usually uses /var/lib/mysql), but thought (maybe incorrectly) that the idea had been expressed about using separate partitions for things and that the implementation would be "left as an exercise for the user". sjm _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
