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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