[plug] Add HDD question ..

[Brian Tombleson]

Web development... I throw a lot of pages I'm doing/done up to /var/www and
some of the sites are very large (80+Mb).  Easier to add the drive there
than worrying about sym-linking out for individual larger sites, etc.

New drive is only 1Gb .. old drive is only 800Mb :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian" <christian at amnet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Add HDD question ..


> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:19:00PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > One extra - dont delete the existing /var just yet - rename it to
> > something like /var-old to give you a path to easily backout if
> > something goes wrong, and delete it when it all looks ok.  Also, /var
> > being what it is, you may be better moving /usr or another choice.
>
> Yeah, this occurred to me also.  /var does seem an odd choice since
> there generally isn't all that much there and, if you trim your log
> files, it probably isn't going to grow much.  For example, my /var is
> 450MB although 400MB of this is cached Debian packages.  In contrast
> /usr is 950MB and is only going to get bigger. I guess it all depends on
> the size of the new hard disk.  If it's very small then /var might be a
> reasonable choice.  On the other hand, if its very big then you might
> want to consider /usr or /home which are more likely to grow with time.
>
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