Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1639 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Amedee Van Gasse pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
<snip>

> Putting /var separate may sound like a nice idea, but in my really
> humble opinion it is overkill except when you run a server. For a
> desktop machine, it's really not necessary to put /var separate. The
> problem discussed in this thread was probably just a fluke.
> To make good use of a lot of partitions, you'd have to use LVM, because
> else you would always have that problem that you allocated too much or
> too little space to a partition.

Firstly: by reading the subject line one might be led to believe /tmp is
on a separate partition. Only the OP can answer that.

Unless you know exactly how big to make a partition you risk breaking your
system quicker by putting /tmp or /var/tmp on separate partitions. lvm
will help in that regard but most people won't know to grow the full
partitions until they have filled to 100% which means you still end up
with a full tmp.

-- 
Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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