On 09/12/2011 01:53 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Francisco Ares writes: >> Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during >> boot? > This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var > directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would be > worse). Just wanted to throw in, that on servers I also create a separate /var/log partition. Reasoning: If your logs fill up /var, than for ex. mysql won't be able to write anymore. So to decouple systems and problems even further I have /var and /var/log on separate partitions, hoping for higher service availability.
Daniel
