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List:       dng
Subject:    Re: [DNG] My thoughts on usr merge
From:       Martin Steigerwald <martin () lichtvoll ! de>
Date:       2023-12-05 12:06:02
Message-ID: 3480537.QJadu78ljV () lichtvoll ! de
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o1bigtenor via Dng - 05.12.23, 12:38:34 CET:
> ". . . /var shouldn't get too full."
> This is the rationale that I was taught by a mentor who although he did
> describe himself as a dinosaur - - he made good sense. His comment was
> that occasionally a log file in /var goes nuts and files up all
> available space. then you can't even log in (his description). So he
> recommended at least /var as a separate partition (that's besides
> /(root), /tmp, /swap, and home.

I separated /var on some machines for exactly that reason. And the 
separation came in handy already.

-- 
Martin


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