On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:57:09AM -0500, Steve Swantz wrote:
> 
> From what I've read, I thought keeping /var on a separate partition was 
> a good idea to prevent a runaway logging event from filling up anything 
> other than /var. I did have a fastcgi restarting itself 5 times/second 
> once (stupid bug) and came pretty close to filling /var before I 
> realized it. Another reason is to have a file system problem on one 
> partition separated from the other partitions. Am I off base?


If you just want a separate /var, couldn't you just use
parted to shrink the /dev/hda3 ?

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