----- 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 -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
