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"...


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