On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > Which is why every old school Unix guru (and younger smart ones as well) > will tell you to put /var on a separate filesystem (partition), and better > yet on a separate physical device.
To illustrate this point: we have a few boxes (AFAIK, about two dozen) where, in order to save money, we have "/var" as a directory on "/" and we regularly have "/" on these boxes filling up because of some runaway logging to "/var/log"... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sxvjecj4nmrfymro_+_uwv6sbsyej4gccndbxpc2pd...@mail.gmail.com