[ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

[Alan Pope]

> cool thanks I'm going in in about 20 minutes. I never knew /var was so big
> relatively - so I'll give it a partition. Any other /<directories> that
> should have their own (apart from /home)?

None of them _need_ to be separate partitions. Historically people
used to do this so that an overfilling /var or /home would not bring
the system to a standstill as / is unwritable. Personally I don't
carve systems up like that at all. You could carve up /home / /etc
/var and /usr but it's not worth it on a desktop/laptop these days in
my opinion.

If you used a filesystem that allows resizing, or LVM then you can add
space to each partition as required, but it's extra admin and faff
really.

Cheers,
Al.