Re: logrotate question
On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:12, Michael Schurter wrote:
>Chris Brandstetter wrote:
>> Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate
>> partition so that if it does become full you still have access to
>> your system, and it will mostly still function as normal.
>
>While this is common practice, I question its usefulness because most
>variable system data is housed in /var. So if a log file fills /var,
> it also crashes your database, mail, and the ability to properly
> startup services because /var/run will full.
>
>I could see partitioning /var/log off on its own, but putting all of
>/var in one partition doesn't seem to solve all that much.
Having been burnt by that twice, I moved /var to a different drive, gave
it 10GB to play in, and would never consider doing it any other way
now.
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