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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: Storage question
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"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> writes:

> I'm pretty sure the last few can't be deleted, but what about the
> stuff in '/var/backups' & '/rescue' ? I am trying to figure out a
> reasonable minimum I can size the root directory & still have safe,
> reliable operations. Any clues appreciated. TIA & have a good one.

You're worrying about a few tens of megabytes? You must have *really*
small disks on these systems. [/rescue takes less than 10MB, and can
save you a lot of time in a rescue situation.]