----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Chambers" <[email protected]>

> I am with McCracken on putting /var on a separate partition that was
> only a
> couple 100 MB so that if it got filled up it wouldn't blow the whole
> hard
> drive. This also made it easier to blow away those run away bloated
> logs
> without fear of messing up the rest of the system.

As the professional sysadmin in the pile, I will note that while putting
/var on a partition is handy, in this case, what you want is right down
as far as putting /var/log on its own partition.

The logs can block other useful stuff on /var, as well as stuff outside it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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