Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

[Joe <joe@jretrading.com>]

Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 17:41 +0000, Joe wrote:
> > Having said that, it's clearly not a bright idea to put a log file of
> > potentially unlimited size in /root. Hasn't anyone heard of /var/log? 
> > And it's pretty obvious why a separate partition is useful there, even
> > for a standalone workstation.
>
> .xsession-errors is a user log for errors related to their err
> X-Session.
>
> Sot of proving that the OP logs in a root to do most if not all things.
> Otherwise .xsession-errors would not be that big in the first place.

I realise that, but /root is rarely on a separate partition to /,
whereas /home often is. That makes /root a bad place to put any
unlimited log, even if root is the logged-in user. Something like
/var/log/root, with root permissions, might be a better idea.