Hi Canek, On Saturday, 15. October 2011 00:50:22 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> > >> On Oct 15, 2011 5:49 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Neil Bothwick wrote: > >>>> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:15:24 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>>>> A'right now. I'm going to start on hal and /usr being on / > >>>>> again. :-P>>>> > >>>> Jeez, 43 years on and you're still going on about it... > >>> > >>> Dang, I was only a year old when hal came out? That just doubled my > >>> age. It's closer to what I feel like tho. > >>> > >>> I'm still not happy with /usr being required tho. That is still > >>> standing on a bad nerve. Don't worry tho, I got plenty of those > >>> bad nerves. :-P>> > >> Do you know that there's a plan to move /var/run to / also? ;-) > >> > >> Rgds, > >> > >> > >> Now someone on here swears up and down that /var isn't going to be > >> required on /. > > > > /var != /var/run > > /var != /var/lock > > > > /var/run is going in /run, but /var/run (by definition) only contains > > things like PID files and runtime sockets. In the same vein, /var/lock > > also is going into /run/lock. I have acknowledged this from the very > > beginning, and I have been pointing out that implying that because > > those two (really small and bounded) directories of /var are going > > into /run and /run/lock, it doesn't mean that the whole /var will go > > into /. That is disinformation. > > I finally found the link (got confused by gmane interface): > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/246892 > > Quoting myself (from more than one month ago): > > "Saying that proposing /run and /lock to be available at boot time > means that in the future a separated /var partition could be not > supported is, in my book, disinformation. /var/run and /var/lock (by > definition) are almost empty (in space). /var/lib usually stores whole > databases. The difference is important and relevant."
and you still did not look into /var/lib to see, what is actually in there? My systems has directories alsa, bluetooth, hp and many more there that are not databases at all. Stop spreading this misinformation, please. > Regards. Best, Michael
