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Old 5th August 2010
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If you make /var and /tmp partitions, they cannot overflow into anything, they can just fill up. Simple as that. A partition is just that: a partition. Whether it's rooted in the root filesystem or not, it can't 'overflow'. What the website you're quoting from is basically saying is: use one big /usr partition, and put everything in it as directories to avoid wasted space in dedicated partitions. That might be reasonable advice if you have a 8 GB disk, but with the huge disks you get for your bucks nowadays, using sensible and generously sized partitions is better. Or move on to more flexible options like ZFS, of course,

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