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From: Mark Delaney <M.N.Delaney@bton.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 04:13:53 +0100
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Curt Welch wrote:
> I've never known for sure
> what /var was - it came many many years later. I've
> always thought it meant variable i.e. the stuff that would
> change from one system to the next on a network of
> systems with shared filesystems.
I once heard that /var was for variable stuff that needed to be
backed-up regually, ie it changes from day to day.
With this, the /usr only needed to be backed-up when you installed
something new.
Mark...
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