suggested size of /var/mail

[doug at safeport.com]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>> 
>> Are there any smart ways to decide how to size /var/mail.
>> I plan to put it on a seperate partition ... or shouldn't I?
>> 
> while considered bad/dangerous/whatever i ALWAYS make only 2 partitions:
>
> swap and root
>
> and NEVER have problems how to size a partitions.

This is not a good idea for a server. Anything that would cause run-away logging 
would effectively cripple your server. On a workstation I like to have a home 
partition as I usually start from sratch when going to a major release or 
skipping a release.