On Jo, 24 feb 11, 16:27:20, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:10:09 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Jo, 24 feb 11, 16:33:09, Celejar wrote: > > > Certainly - but my advice stands for typical, general purpose desktops, > > > laptops and servers. > > > > I doubt typical, general purpose desktops and laptops (yes, I omitted > > servers) are using /var/spool/mail or /var/spool/cron/crontabs > > Having a couple of user cronjobs around is pretty normal for me. And while > remote mail is optional, I consider a system that can't deliver local mail to > be incomplete. > > There's also other stuff under /var I use. PostgreSQL databases for one. > > NB: I don't keep backups. I know I should, but I don't. I gave up after > calculating the size of the pile of DVDs I'd need to back up my 4TB file > system. I don't consider a debian-user subscriber a "typical desktop / laptop user" :) Regards Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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