> Is there any way to create linux partitions that will resize
> themselves? If all of a sudden I have a very large job ending up in
> var, I want it to be able to handle it, but don't want to have to
> dedicate space that is rarely going to be used. I guess I could
> symlink it, but that would be ugly.
What you seem to be calling for is a single large partition. Why make it
more complicated than necessary? I don't know of any way of getting
partitions to resize themselves dynamically; that would involve some
fairly difficult filesystem-level games on top of the magical partitions.
Shawn