On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 06:01:50 -0500 Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Last night, while at work, I was trying to think of ways to reduce
| disk usage on my laptop (thus increasing battery life).  I already
| mount /tmp as tmpfs, and was wondering what else might be a good idea
| to mount as tmpfs.. 
|
| I figured /var/log might be a good candidate, so I stopped metalog,
| backed up /var/log, then deleted everything, and did:

<snip>

| All this leads to my question... is there any reason I shouldn't do
| this?

Possibly... If your box falls over or gets rooted, you lose any useful
stuff that's dumped to syslog. But then, if you're running metalog, you
probably won't get that information anyway :)

You may also upset metalog if it tries to write more than 10 megs of
logs...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail:    ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web:     http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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