Lan Barnes wrote:
Unfortunately, I find for myself that /etc and /var are a mixed bag of
stuff I need and stuff I want to write over. I cope with /etc (not well)
by keeping .../RCS archives of key files. It's a pain because they're in
different subdirectories. I take some key files (like hand rolled X
config files) off to floppy and put that in my machine envelope.
I frequently rail against the shoddy situation in /var. It still enrages
me when applications use it for the location of data bases that I need.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't allow anything in /var but spools, logs,
temp files, and data bases that are local to the installation, like the
RPM data base and the locate data base. But that ain't so, so explore
/var before purging.
You should read the FHS(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/). It basically says
that all variable files should go in /var. This includes logs,
databases, and spools. This was done to allow for more filesystems to
be mounted as read only.
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