[Centos] email server partition scheme

[ken at perfect-image.com (Ken Godee)]

>>>as possible.  Is there a good reason for a ton of different partitions?
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>>Just - can't - resist...
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> Please no one resist.  I've always read about people splitting
> everything up, but I don't know all the reasons why...
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>>One of the main things that can take down a mail server is log file
>>growth.  You should consider at a minimum put them into a seperate
>>partition so that they can fill the partition without crashing the machine.
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> That's a good reason.  Any others?
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A single irate / miss configured program can chew up all
your inodes in a partition.