-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 15:02, Yannick Koehler wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:23:27PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think /var/www and /var/lib/mysql are candidates for being moved > > for a start. You should be able to wipe /var without breaking your > > system, just logs and re-creatable caches. > > With that in mind, why is there a /var? use /tmp ;-)
Because /tmp is for shortlived temporary files. /var is for files that can be regenerated, but that regeneration is allowed to be expensive. / tmp must not contain such caches. On /tmp one is able to run a tmp reaper, on /var it would be less than desirable. Paul - -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/skEubKx5DBjWFdsRAlmPAJ4r/oc7yud701NRCY252G18CsqfzACglKCR spQy3Dt5c6G+fnMFVENU4S4= =8QHy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
