On 10/09/2013 18:57, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> I'm curious as to why you do that, I can't see any benefit at all. >> > >> > The "var" filesystem is an LV and is only useful if it is mounted at >> > /var where packages expect it to be. Why add the extra complexity of >> > mounting it somewhere else and then bind mounting it to the pnly place >> > it can be useful? > An old habit/belief that mounts go in /mnt. Since both revdep-rebuild > and you believe this is a bad habit, I now mount directly on /var /opt.
Ah, OK. Technically a mount can go anywhere. Permanent mounts just go where they are supposed to go, and /mnt was a throwback to the bad old days where everything else was mounted at /mnt/<something>, including cdroms, filesystems you wanted to access quickly, windows partitions on a dual boot machine etc etc. or the gentoo partition during install before your chroot Then removeable media started being mounted in /media where the GUI could manage it and not have to deal with root-only permissions in /mnt Nowadays media goes in /run/media.... All very confusing and hard to keep up with. It's like trying to figure out what politicians and your boss happen to be talking about today :-) > >> > There's rules of thumb about this that will always work: >> > >> > No object in /tmp can be expected to survive successive invocations of >> > the program that created the object, and never survive a reboot; >> > No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot >> > >> > The best place for temp files, ironically, is ~ > I set tmpwatch and wipe_tmp so that files survive in /tmp and /var/tmp > for a month. > > I don't like ~ for temp files since on some, admittedly rare, occasions > I actually use the gnome gui file manager and don't want a huge ~. I > have long ago created ~/tmp (also cleaned after a month by tmpwatch) so > the only problem is breaking the habit of placing short-term files in > /tmp instead of ~/tmp. OK, I get it. I'd write all that temp stuff to /var/tmp so it doesn't get nuked by something cleverly trying to manage /tmp. I often feel the same way about ~/.xsession-errors. I have to restrain myself from symlinking it to /dev/null :-) > I realize that habit is bad for my (system's) health, but still find it > hard to break. I shall try again. Perhaps this is very mild form of > what intelligent smokers feel :-). There is no such thing as an intelligent smoker; there are only stupid smokers :-) I'm a two-packs-a-day man myself, I speak from many years experience! -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
