o1bigtenor via Dng - 05.12.23, 12:38:34 CET:
> ". . . /var shouldn't get too full."
> This is the rationale that I was taught by a mentor who although he did
> describe himself as a dinosaur - - he made good sense. His comment was
> that occasionally a log file in /var goes nuts and files up all
> available space. then you can't even log in (his description). So he
> recommended at least /var as a separate partition (that's besides
> /(root), /tmp, /swap, and home.

I separated /var on some machines for exactly that reason. And the
separation came in handy already.

--
Martin