Ugh. This is tricky unless you have *total* control over everything that 
goes into the box. If you have developers or 3rd party apps that don't 
consider system survivability important it is better to isolate them 
into /opt where they can mess up their own space and not hose the server.

And yeah, I'd like to go back to making /usr read-only too. They keep 
putting things that don't belong.

ciao!

leam

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org> writes:
> 
>>Some suggestions have been made to solve this.  I'd add:
>>
>> * Put everything on one big partition.
> 
> 
> I always do this now. I just put everything on a machine into one big
> "a" partition. With 20G disks or more, I've never had any sort of
> issue from doing this, and it has eliminated most of my "how big do
> you make partition X" issues.
>