On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 03:23:45 PM Daniel Troeder wrote: > 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.
I actually have seperate partitions for the databases (Postgresql, OpenLdap, cyrus,...) to avoid any service interfering with any other. But the more seperate partitions someone has, the more of a problem this change is going to be. I have yet to find a filesystem that is optimal for all use-cases. -- Joost
