[CentOS] When should LVM be used?

[Drew]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:35 AM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 05:32 -0700, Drew wrote:
>>
>> I'd still want a separate partition for /var for the SAN
>> configuration. I've seen more then one machine brought to it's knees
>> by overflowing log entries.
> ---
> I can't really argue that point there.  I've seen iptables do the same
> as also auditd.  Carefulness in log watching is the key.  You check your
> logs?
>
> John

I do. Daily emails with copies of all logs and a summary disk usage
statement of all partitions.

I learned my lesson about log files a while back. ;-)


-- 
Drew

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