On 11/15/2011 04:04 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Greg Woods wrote: > >>> I may be getting hit by bug 748119 >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748119 >>> >>> as my /var is mounted on a different filesystem than / >> >> I have the same issue, and my /var is also mounted on a separate file >> system (which I thought was standard practice; who wants root to fill up >> because a logging process runs wild?) > > I've often wondered if it made sense to keep /var on a separate partition. > I did it for a time, but then gave up as I couldn't remember > why I was doing it. Various application fill /var at run-time. Keeping /var on a separate partition is a simple means to avoid malfunctions of the systems by something filling up the "whole diskspace" by accident or by malicious users, and thus to cause "denial of services". A classical example would be filling up a servers' spool area (often under /var) by huge print jobs or by huge emails. A Fedora/RH specific classic such case is users setting "keepcache=1" in /etc/yum.conf and them then forgetting to cleanup /var/cache/yum. At some point they wonder why they are running out of disk-space. Ralf -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
