From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R3Uxv-0001rv-VN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:32:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BD5021C0A8; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD27321C06A for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:30:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.140] (helo=smtp9.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3UwG-0004LY-8C for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:30:20 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp9.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3UwE-0000cr-ML for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:30:18 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F86AED0 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:30:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kq2BMMWeOkVb for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:30:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05E18635 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:30:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:30:16 +0200 Message-ID: <5878061.pd5KhLFNeu@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.1 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4E6F5961.70001@admin-box.com> References: <20110912015307.67a4b91e@weird.wonkology.org> <4E6F5961.70001@admin-box.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1R3UwE-0000cr-ML X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.692, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 0.73, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.50) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 49a18ed661fc8e07c695a786f7c70562 On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 03:23:45 PM Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 09/12/2011 01:53 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Francisco Ares writes: > >> Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during > >> boot? > > > > This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var > > directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would > > be > > worse). > > Just wanted to throw in, that on servers I also create a separate > /var/log partition. Reasoning: If your logs fill up /var, than for ex. > mysql won't be able to write anymore. So to decouple systems and > problems even further I have /var and /var/log on separate partitions, > hoping for higher service availability. I actually have seperate partitions for the databases (Postgresql, OpenLdap, cyrus,...) to avoid any service interfering with any other. But the more seperate partitions someone has, the more of a problem this change is going to be. I have yet to find a filesystem that is optimal for all use-cases. -- Joost