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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 19:29:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        chas <panda@peace.com.my>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding 25GB as single partition ok ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526192916.13318H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980522231438.00969b40@peace.com.my>

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On Fri, 22 May 1998, chas wrote:

> Just like the school of thought that places /var on 
> /usr/var since disk usage is unpredictable, I figured
> that it's less troublesome and more efficient (in terms
> of usage) to put everyone and everything on one big 
> 25GB slice. Does this sound reasonable ? Any caveats 
> to beware of ?

You can't easily back up /var, at least using dump.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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