Subject: Re: Size of /var on v2.0
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/22/2004 14:39:28
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 07:44:04PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> In general, though, one only worries about that on servers. For
> desktop machines, I've used "one big partition" for years now, and I
> have yet to regret it.
I had a drive fail recently. Some blocks in /var went bad. Sucked, but
/home was a separate partition and unaffected, which made recovinging
the important data easy.
jf
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