On 1/30/2014 12:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Lists<lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: >>> > > >> >And for clarity's sake, I'm not suggesting a literal partition /os and >> >/data, simply that there are areas of the filesystem used to store >> >operating system stuff (EG: /bin, /boot, /usr), and areas used to store >> >data (EG: /home, /var, /tmp), etc. > The division is not at all clean, especially under /var. You've got > stuff put there by a base OS install mingled with an unpredictable > amount of logs and data. indeed. and its not unusual to discover a year after deployment that you need signfiicantly more space in /usr or whatever. I generally use LVM for my boot disk -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast