Lan Barnes wrote:
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.
Reading it and agreeing with it are two different things ... or am I not
allowed to think any more?
Think on, but I provided that as the rational for why things are the way
they are.
Tell me, what files besides /usr/bin are not potentially "variable"?
Should my resume and correspondence go in there? _All_ data bases?
What's the advantage of a partition scheme where one partition is so ill
defined that any damn thing can go in there? Should I put everything in
/tmp that might someday get erased?
/var is ill defined IMNSHO.
The FHS covers user files as well as system files, and /var is not the
place for user files. I found /var very well defined into smaller
groupings, so that when the FHS is actually followed, it is easy to find
what you are looking for. Most of the Linux distros are moving that way,
but for legacy purposes have not completely done so, thus you get a bit
of a mess.
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