On 02/15/2016 02:12 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > It is so great to hear that! I was shushed a few times by modern > experts - I bet on this list too - about following ancient practices > and having more than just / partition... so I felt myself as a relic > dinosaur ... On a public-facing server I tend to make /var a separate partition, and sometimes I'll go as far as making /var/log a separate partition, since I have been burned before by log file growth. It does depend upon the use case; for my Scalix servers the /var/opt/scalix dir was always on a separate filesystem, and even today on an e-mail server I would likely put /var/spool/mail on a separate partition or logical volume. Nothing like an e-mail DoS to take a server down when / or /var fills up..... And I love LVM for the most part, since it allows you to do 'repartitioning' without really repartitioning. Yeah, it adds a layer of complexity, but flexibility does come at a price, and LVM is very flexible. Although now that most of my storage is on EMC SAN it is easier to resize what the OS considers to be whole disks, and so I will put different filesystems not just on different partitions but on different LUNs and manage with the EMC Unisphere tools.