On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 06:24:22PM -0700, BCLUG via talk wrote:
> 
> (Someone already replied to and addressed this, but since I'd already typed
> it up, gonna send it anyway.)
> 
> 
> o1bigtenor via talk wrote on 2023-04-05 12:34:
> 
> > a great way
> > to reduce the problem caused by a runaway var file was to use separate
> > /var and /usr partitions (from / and /home).
> 
> That *may* help with preserving space on /, but now you have 2 more
> partitions to manage, and if /var runs out of space, you're still in
> trouble.
> 
> 
> 
> Plus, if /usr runs out of space, there'll be trouble installing anything.
> 
> 
> Really, that just shifts the problem around without solving much.

Also most linux distributions no longer support /usr being a different
partition than / so those days are done.  And it wasn't even a good idea
when it was first introduced, but well they had to do what they could
with the disk size they had available.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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