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From: reese@chem.duke.edu (Charles Reese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: var as directory not fs?
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 16:45:04 GMT
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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I was helping a friend install FreeBSD over the phone and somehow
during the partitioning the /var file system was left out, now /var is
just a directory under root.  Is this going to cause any problems?  We
have a fairly large / partition and so far it is only at 67%.  If this
will cause problems what is the best solution?

Thanks 
Charlie Reese