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>>csmant+(OP)
I've only used modern immutable Linux (Alpine, MicroOS) and wondered why of all places `/var/` was chosen as the location for rw stuff. It's fun to be reminded that there was of course a time when an immutable OS was the default, and you ran it off of floppies. So there's a lot of history to using `/var/` for that. Guess we've come full circle!

>>miggol+uk
Was it immutable? I thought it was just different storage types, like you'd have a smaller disk for the root stuff and then make var on a larger disk. I'm surprised that, having something immutable, you'd choose to go the other direction.