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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What are the best practices to partition a linux system with? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aaaand your server just crashed because of a spammy log. You lost the company $222 million overnight, the database is corrupt, and every 9 minutes the company looses another $1 million.

Good job.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

systemd resets the logs when they get big, this isn't the 2000s anymore. But if you want to limit the size of /var/log, any modern filesystem has disk quotas per-directory

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