how do others deal with /var during upgrades?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Ian Mortimer wrote:

> 
> >   under /var, you'd find things like web and ftp server data that you'd
> > probably want to carry across to the new install.  on the other hand, 
> > there's stuff like, perhaps, /var/log or /var/cache or /var/run that
> > you might not care about.
> 
> Ideally /var/www, /var/ftp, /var/cvs, /var/mysql and the like should
> each be on their own separate partition. 
> 
> Easy enough to do that using lvm.

ouch.  sure, it's easier with LVM, but it also confirms my initial
point that the whole directory layout under /var really is a mess --
a mixture of both static and dynamic data.

/srv is starting to look really appealing right about now.

rday