[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think creating a seperate partition for /var (at least) is counter
> productive. If /var fills up, your machine is going to go down because a
> lot of services will hang if they can't write to the syslog.  Similar logic
> applies to /usr. I can see having a seperate partion for /home but that is
> about it.


I pretty much agree.


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