Wow, amazing how much I've forgotten in 15 years. So, yes, other issues are # of inodes (another way you can fill a disk up), security (you can fill /var but you can't fill the whole disk), and backups.
Backups were the other big reason that we split stuff up functionally as I showed above. Basically, /home (or /usr/home) was the only thing that had to be backed up regularly. We would back up /etc and /usr after an upgrade, and in /var the only thing to be backed up were important logs and databases or whatever. The purpose of /var has changed over the years as we didn't keep much important stuff there other than email 20 years ago - and that was barely important. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. mdcha...@michaelchaney.com http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
