Expanding / is useful when you need to upgrade the system and the newer OS needs more space to upgrade. My primary concern is things under the /var filesystem, where things grow constantly like logs (which I like to keep atleast 6months of rotated logs), possibly more space for /var/spool/mqueue (for mail server that have increase of mail traffic), and /var/spool/mail (for those hog user who refuse to clean up their INBOX ;-) ). Sarwer > > (b) dynamically expand the amount of space available to the root partition. > > Pardon me for being a neophyte here, but what else goes on the root > partition which takes any significant or dynamic amount of space? Isn't > the root just a place to put all the top level directories, the contents > of which are typically all on another partition anyway? > > -- Mitch -- -------------------------- System Administrator Rune Information Services http://www.rune.org e-mail: sarwer@rune.org --------------------------
