Re: slink -> potato
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 06:43:08PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote:
> This brings up a question that i've had for sometime, but haven't
> yet asked anyone.
>
> Why the hell does Debian insist on putting some very disk space
> consuming directories in /var ?? such as:
>
> /var/ftp
> /var/cache
> /var/lib/dpkg
I suggest reading http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ . The /var partition
holds "variable" data. Hence it can become very large. The /usr
partition is for executables, libraries, etc... from the distributor --
files that should rarely change (with a stable distro). In fact, it may
be wise to segment /var depending on the type of system use.
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