Installation Issue

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:08 PM -0500 Fritz Whittington 
<f.whittington at att.net> wrote:

> you should keep all of
> / in one big pot (again, excepting /boot and swap), because you never
> really know in advance which of /usr, /usr/share, /var, /tmp or whatever
> is going to need more space as you use the system over time.

Unless you run a POP3 server with quotas. Then you should put /tmp and /var 
on separate partitions, so that the temporary backup of the mailbox will be 
on a separate partition. Quotas are managed per-partition. When a user 
"pops" his mail, the mailbox is copied to a temporary backup, so that 
messages can be selectively deleted. If your quota for /var (containing 
your mailbox in /var/spool/mail/username) is close to full and you don't 
have another partition to hold the copy, you'll go over quota just trying 
to fetch your mail, with no ability to release the excess storage.