[plug] Partition sizes on a new install

[Earnshaw, Mike]

The FHS mailing list is quite active at the moment with discussion on a
standard directory structure / naming etc

fhs-discuss at ucsd.edu 

is the mailing list. Not sure where I subscribed from ... der ;-)

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Holland [mailto:myk at golden.wattle.id.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2000 11:21
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Partition sizes on a new install
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, SweenyTod wrote:
> 
> > /var from what my newbie brain can tell seems to be a 
> dumping ground for 
> > all sorts of stuff.  There are mail queues, log files which 
> can get pretty 
> 
> That'd be var for "variable".  System files that change during normal
> running are there. Dont you think /etc/mtab  ought to be in /var ? 
> 
> /etc used to be a dumping groud, before they cleared out 
> everything except
> the config files. Now its badly named. Where can I call for a vote to
> rename /etc to /config ? Or should that be /cfg?
> 
> -- 
> Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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