[Techtalk] /usr Partition

Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon at thenilgiris.com
Thu Jan 19 18:24:11 EST 2006


On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 12:09 pm, Mary wrote:
> For systems on which you run servers, some people still argue for
> a separate /var too. The reason for that is that /var generally
> holds log output,

and if it is database intensive work, depending on the distro, the 
data will be stored either in /var or /usr - so you have to make 
allowances for that. I use postgresql a lot, and my mandrake stores 
that on var - so i have a separate partition for /var
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