[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

[leam hall]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 12/09/2014 02:17 PM, leam hall wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> Stuff in /var/tmp, logs in /var/log.
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> 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.

I just filled up a server's /var/log and can still do stuff in it.


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