partitioning new installation

[Tim Writer]

lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:51:05PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I have logrotate configured properly.  And I don't run my system
> anywhere near that full in the first place.  Makes it much too slow.

But you know what you're doing. These things can happen, esp. on a home where
the user is experimenting with all sorts of software (and running as root,
and ...). Separate file systems (through partitioning or LVM) give you a
measure of protection from these kind of problems.

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