[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

[Todor Fassl]

On 12/09/2014 02:17 PM, leam hall wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How are people dumping to /var, /usr, or /? Like I said, I could see
>> creating a seperate /home. I could have added /tmp. Are you talking about
>> other sysadmins dumping to /var?
>>
>
> Stuff in /var/tmp, logs in /var/log.
>
Right. But that's my original point. If /var gets filled up with logs, 
your system is going to go down because a lot of services will hang if 
they can't write log entries. If you allocate 20% of the disk to /var, 
your system can have nearly 80% of the disk empty and it'll crash for 
lack of space.
I gotta admit, I am unclear as to what the downside is.