Regularly updated files in /etc

[Warner Losh]

On Aug 31, 2011, at 12:07 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I don't see any real downsides for the first two:
> - Moving dumpdates out of root just means a different FS would need te
>  be writable during dumps.

The whole reason it is in / is so that when you are doing level 0 dumps of the entire machine, you only need to have / mounted r/w.  Moving it to /var introduces another moving part into the requirements for dumps since /var is on another file system.  It would likely break backup scripts.

Warner