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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: var as directory not fs? Date: 16 Jun 1997 20:10:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5o46k5$e49@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33a56bb2.99111828@news.duke.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42912 reese@chem.duke.edu (Charles Reese) wrote: > 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? Not unless you fill it up. Take car for kernel core dump sizes, if you enable them. However, having /var inside / slightly increases the possibility of damages to your / filesystem after a crash. Also, if you dump /, you're going to dump /var (which is often not useful to do). As you can see, enough points to make it recommendable to suggest a filesystem of its own by default, but nothing very serious either. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)