On Friday 11 August 2006 09:05, Claes at work wrote: Hi, can somebody post the result of du -h /var from a pretty vanilla 10.0 installation? The reason I am asking is I want to determine if it would be feasible to mount /var on a usb flash (512MB) for a silent server where I would like to suspend the hd. On 10.1, /var is more than 512MB, and quite a lot of the space is used by zmd . Thanks, Claes ********************************************************************** SuSE Linux 9.3 (i586) superking:~ # du -sh /var 234M /var SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586) bender:~ # du -sh /var 253M /var bender:~ # du -sh /var/run/zmd;du -sh /var/lib/zmd;du -sh /var/cache/zmd 0 /var/run/zmd 12M /var/lib/zmd 0 /var/cache/zmd What is expected to be the advantage of using a removeable flash drive for mounting /var?