On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:12, Michael Schurter wrote: >Chris Brandstetter wrote: >> Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate >> partition so that if it does become full you still have access to >> your system, and it will mostly still function as normal. > >While this is common practice, I question its usefulness because most >variable system data is housed in /var. So if a log file fills /var, > it also crashes your database, mail, and the ability to properly > startup services because /var/run will full. > >I could see partitioning /var/log off on its own, but putting all of >/var in one partition doesn't seem to solve all that much.
Having been burnt by that twice, I moved /var to a different drive, gave it 10GB to play in, and would never consider doing it any other way now. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
