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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org