Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> writes: > It's a bit late at this point, but why did you split your installation > into different partitions, fixed partitions no less, on a laptop with a > single disk? That's the sort of thing you do with a server where you > have RAID, LVM, and possibly other advanced storage-related things going > on.
Recently I created a virtual machine with qemu and virt-manager, and unknown to me by default it creates the virtual disk in /var. As this was not on its own partion but in the same as / it happily filled the root partition and I got into a mess. /var can grow significantly over time due to logs, databases, and other persistent services, so I can understand why someone might put it on its own partition.
