Re: How to get away with small /var partition

[Akira Kitada <aktdjp@ybb.ne.jp>]

> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:40:17AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> I use this scripts to move all my downloaded .debs into directories
> arranged by date they were obsoleted:
>
<snip>
> "x":::::
>
> dt=`date +"%y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
> sub=dists/latest/binary-i386
> cd /mnt/apt
</snip>

I've heard that moving around directories used by system
is so dangerous(I mean /etc /var ...etc)
that if you'd like to do things like that,
you should use rescue disk, and then do what you want.

I've been deceived??