David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com> writes:
Reading comments and talking to people, the long standing
understanding of
/var is still "that's stuff you can rm -rf and the system will still work
fine". Technically you could remove the RPM database and the system still
function [...]
Considering that many other valuable mutable state are put under /var
are put there, databases, container images, etc. etc. etc, this
understanding cannot be correct. We could just leave /var alone.
# sudo du -s /var/lib/*
- FChE