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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:09:05 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Ryan Sommers" <ryans@gamersimpact.com>
To: "Scott Long" <scottl@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped 
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Scott Long said:
> I tend to agree.  What do you think of my proposal to have installkernel
> (optionally or whatever) put unstriped binaries somewhere outside of the
> root partition?

I'm not too sure how much I like using /var for large things like this
either. Certain programs like mysql and mailers tend to use /var by
default and by default we have tiny /var partitions if you're trying to
store mail or databases. Adding lots of debugging binaries to /var will
severely limit that. I think our default for /var is the same as / infact,
not certain on this though.

Only place I can think outside of root that is sufficeintly large would be
/usr. /usr/local/kernel.debug?

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Ryan Sommers
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