Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

[Eric Martin]

Michael Higgins wrote:

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:18:39 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, Michael Higgins wrote:

Now, was that a stupid thing to do, or should everything under /var
continue to work still, without issues?

afaik it should work.

/home is mounted in fstab, just like rootfs. I'm worried about a
reboot not working for some reason .

it should work. I would probably use bind mounting, but that is a

matter of taste.

This was what I thought I should do, but wasn't sure how to do it. Makes sense 
now, seems to have worked well.

As for the new disk, it is only new to this machine. It's SCSI and
sits on its own controller, reiserfs format. I think perhaps it
originally was intermittently failing in a higher-speed controller
and got swapped out. Is there a way I can keep regularly checking
it for performance issues, should any crop up?

smartd

Is this in portage?

Cheers,

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