Comment 16 for bug 523484

One thing to add, though: you guys REALLY should be testing with var as a separate partition. The whole reason for var is that it is files which grow and change, and the reason for splitting it off from the rest of the filesystem was so that you can put it on its own partition and not have it cause fragmentation on your other file systems. Thus, I agree with the other user that a separate /var partition is in no way a corner case. It's the smart way to do things, in fact, and the implicit message here is that Ubuntu isn't aimed at smart users.