H <br><br>Le mardi 22 octobre 2013, R. G. Newbury a écrit :<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
THAT is a recipe for disaster. If you have one process go run-away and spam-fill your /var/log/messages or /var/lib/mysql logging folders you will NOT be able to recover. And as RW pointed out, that will also destroy your mysql database(s). I'm not even sure that there is any way to recover from that sort of run-away without a complete re-install. All for 'an absolute minimum of partitions'.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure; 20 years ago that was the recommended approach...</div><div><br></div><div>Now with huge disks (even a 20GB SSD is huge by comparison to what fit was back in the days) having a dedicated /var partition is just a plain pain in the a***. Because that one will run out of space sooner or later.</div>
<div>Same with /tmp</div><div>And that is a nightmare to deal with...</div><br><div><br></div><div>Not even with FreeBSD do I bother to create that many partitions. Just one big /</div><div><br></div><div>That's how most if not all Linux distribution installers do it too these days...</div>
<div><br></div><div>A file system full won't destroy your database to a point that it's unrecoverable...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>