On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 06:43:08PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > This brings up a question that i've had for sometime, but haven't > yet asked anyone. > > Why the hell does Debian insist on putting some very disk space > consuming directories in /var ?? such as: > > /var/ftp > /var/cache > /var/lib/dpkg
I suggest reading http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ . The /var partition holds "variable" data. Hence it can become very large. The /usr partition is for executables, libraries, etc... from the distributor -- files that should rarely change (with a stable distro). In fact, it may be wise to segment /var depending on the type of system use. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+