Way back in October 2000, on the SAGE members mailing list, well-known expert Tom Limoncelli said: "It isn't a service if it isn't monitored. If there is no monitoring then you're just running software." --- Tom Limoncelli On Wed, 2023/04/05 02:34:15PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | Quite a number of years ago a now deceased mentor advised that a great way | to reduce the problem caused by a runaway var file was to use separate | /var and /usr partitions (from / and /home). I would argue that these days, in most cases, that is no longer a good configuration. Sure, /var filling up won't prevent you from manipulating files in /home. But if /var or / or /tmp is full, you've got a problem. And with multiple partitions, you need to have multiple chunks of free space. And you have to have a good idea up front of what your space requirements are. And yes, with LVM you can often extend a partition. But multiple partitions just mean more problems to worry about. Better you just alert once your disk gets 80% (or whatever) full. My two cents - cheers. John