Why is yum not liked by some?

[craigwhite at azapple.com (Craig White)]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 02:53 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> >perhaps there is a problem with your /var partition...
> >
> What do you mean by var "partition"? I have a /var directory. Is it 
> supposed to be on a separate partition?
> 
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on server systems I find it to be a good idea. If you set up as one LVM
volume, it's not going to be on it's own partition.

at any rate - sometimes journal'd filesystems are damaged and the only
sure way to know is to fsck it - which the previous message would do.

Craig