On 11/08/06 08:44, Claes at work wrote:
On 8/11/06, Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> wrote:
That's a bad idea. /var contains log files, spool files as well as both the utmp and wtmp files. You can certainly contain the size of the log files by removing the old logs, wtmp and some other garbage.
Perhaps I did not explain my intent well enough. Since /var contains files that will be written constantly more or less by having a system up and running (such as log files, pid files etc) I want it to reside on storage that is not rotating :-) In other words, I want it persistently stored and at the same time be able to spin down my hard drive. At least when the system is idling I know it should be possible. All the downloads are also stored on /var, when you do an update. Even if you do not keep the update rpms, you need sufficient space to download them before they're installed.