partitioning new installation

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:26:41PM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
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>>/var should be separate.  If any logs grow uncontrollably you don't want
>>them filling your / partition.
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>Now why would the logs be growing in the first place on a non server?
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I don't know. However, my /var was so full (I guess that was just 
filling / as it was not a separate partition) once that I could not boot 
to GUI - I had to go into command line and delete files in /var.

Chris

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