Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 09:38:53PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >> Moreover, I'll throw in /var/log as well, because I don't care about > >> the logs either. > > > > You might benefit from putting it on tmpfs then ;) > > That brings up an

Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 ian 12, 21:38:53, T o n g wrote: > > That brings up an interesting topic. -- No, I didn't put /var/log on > tmpfs, but /tmp, /var/run & /var/lock instead, because I was worrying > about wasting tmpfs with big logs, since my box might be up for months. > > I think staled tmpfs file mi

Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-15 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> Moreover, I'll throw in /var/log as well, because I don't care about >> the logs either. > > You might benefit from putting it on tmpfs then ;) That brings up an interesting topic. -- No, I didn't put /var/log on tmpfs, but /tmp, /var

Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 12 ian 12, 02:54:30, T o n g wrote: > Moreover, I'll throw in /var/log as well, because I don't care about > the logs either. You might benefit from putting it on tmpfs then ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/

Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-11 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:54:30 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > Thanks for your detailed explain, Karl. > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:21:19 +, Karl E. Jørgensen wrote: > > > * /var/mail - if people are OK losing their mail (but they're > > usually not). > > Oh, I meant home system only, i

Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-11 Thread T o n g
Thanks for your detailed explain, Karl. On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:21:19 +, Karl E. Jørgensen wrote: > * /var/mail - if people are OK losing their mail (but they're > usually not). Oh, I meant home system only, in which my mail queue will guarantee to be empty at the time that I chos

Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable

2012-01-11 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
On 11/01/12 18:13, T o n g wrote: Hi, Which /var/ contents are disposable? I mean, for contents in var/backups/ var/log/ var/mail/ var/tmp/ etc, if I don't backup them, when doing a *full* system restore, will there be any problem? Any more folders I can add to above list? This wi