/dev, /etc, /var- and mkrwsize()

[Michael Tautschnig]

>   With 2.10 and hardly anything added to the default nfsroot, du shows:
>     16K for /dev, 1.8M for /etc and 78M for /var.
> The large consumers of those 78M are:
>     17M     nfsroot/var/lib/apt
>     5.8M    nfsroot/var/lib/dpkg
>     15M     nfsroot/var/cache
>     41M     nfsroot/var/tmp
> 
> Perhaps mkrwsize() from subroutines-linux should create a
>     5m for /etc
>     another 10m for /var, where for /var the large consumers from above
> will be excluded
>    and another 100k for /dev
>

Could you please elaborate on the use of these directories? Usually I wouldn't
expect to much to be written to the NFSROOT ...

Thanks,
Michael

PS.: Or is it just the LVM things you mentionend lately?

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