On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 06:24:22PM -0700, BCLUG via talk wrote:
(Someone already replied to and addressed this, but since I'd already typed it up, gonna send it anyway.)
o1bigtenor via talk wrote on 2023-04-05 12:34:
a great way to reduce the problem caused by a runaway var file was to use separate /var and /usr partitions (from / and /home).
That *may* help with preserving space on /, but now you have 2 more partitions to manage, and if /var runs out of space, you're still in trouble.
Plus, if /usr runs out of space, there'll be trouble installing anything.
Really, that just shifts the problem around without solving much.
Also most linux distributions no longer support /usr being a different partition than / so those days are done. And it wasn't even a good idea when it was first introduced, but well they had to do what they could with the disk size they had available. -- Len Sorensen