On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Ron Johnson

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> Honestly, though, how often does that happen?
>

It happened to me once, and that was enough to take appropriate measures.


> Maybe it's because I "just" run a workstation, or maybe because disks are
> so huge nowadays, or I'm just a fool, but I leave var/ under / so anything
> catastrophic as to trash var/ will best be solved by a complete reinstall.
>

I leave /var in a separate partition, only because I cut my teeth on
Unix/Linux back in the days when filling / or /var would cause a system
crash.

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