[mdlug] WTF /var/log

[Garry Stahl]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Quoting Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com>:
>
>   
>> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>     
>>> Yep; a good reason to have /var/log as its own volume.  Even on a
>>> desktop/laptop system.  This is the most common problem I see regarding
>>> omg-my-disk-is-full.
>>>       
>> OK, I have the drive ready to install, how do I name that volume to make
>> sure /var ends up there?  I have a 2 tera drive, 30 for /root, 4 for
>> swap, ?/var rest /home.
>> And should /var be the physical partition?
>>     
>
> No, none of those should be physical partitions; they should all be  
> logical volumes.  Don't commit the entire physical volume - you can  
> grow this later if you discover you need to [resize even works  
> 'online' these days']
>
> I'd:
> 12GB for root [probably bigger then you'll ever need]
> 4GB for swap
> 4Gb for /var/log
> 250GB for /home
>   

/home is at 425 gig now.  Why do you think 2 terabyte drives?

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