From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:45:25 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split In-Reply-To: <20120201121214.55c73577@cnb.csic.es> References: <20120201121214.55c73577@cnb.csic.es> Message-ID: <8E4D7C90-58E1-4860-BBEB-040A5C765DBE@tfeb.org> On 1 Feb 2012, at 11:12, Jose R. Valverde wrote: > This is something obvious to anyone maintaining a multi-user server, only > presumptuous single-user windows toyers think they know better. If only this were true. Until reasonably recently (may be a couple of years ago was the last time I cared), a major Unix vendor's recommendation was not to have separate /var, because that was "old fashioned" (I assume). Some of their installation / upgrade programs would fail if you did in fact. For additional amusement, the default install would put no limit on the size of the memory-based /tmp filesystem. So basically anything on the system could fill / with all the undesirable consequences that has, and also eat the system's memory in an unpleasantly persistent way. --tim