RE: [linux-lvm] Mandrake 8.1 and LVM

[Sarwer Zafiruddin <sarwer zafiruddin rune org>]

Expanding / is useful when you need to upgrade the system and the newer OS
needs more space to upgrade.  My primary concern is things under the /var
filesystem, where things grow constantly like logs (which I like to keep
atleast 6months of rotated logs), possibly more space for
/var/spool/mqueue (for mail server that have increase of mail traffic),
and /var/spool/mail (for those hog user who refuse to clean up their INBOX
;-) ).

Sarwer

> > (b) dynamically expand the amount of space available to the root
partition.
> 
> Pardon me for being a neophyte here, but what else goes on the root
> partition which takes any significant or dynamic amount of space?  Isn't
> the root just a place to put all the top level directories, the contents
> of which are typically all on another partition anyway?
> 
> -- Mitch

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