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).
But this might change - the upcoming change in udev might require either
an initramfs, or /usr being on the root partition. And I read that the
same might be true for /var.
Wonko

