On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:35 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I want to both to use the same /var/cache partition. /var/cache has its > > own partition. I already share /tmp and swap. Is there anything in > > /var/cache, or is there anything that could be in /var/cache that would > > cause problems if it was shared in this way? > > I don't know, but there are other things you can do short of sharing all > of /var/cache. For example, you could mount just part of it in both > Debs, e.g. /var/cache/apt/archives, which takes up about 1 GB on my > host. That would be a pretty big space savings for you already. > > If you don't want to separately mount a whole bunch of subdirectories in > /var/cache, then you could mount the partition that holds /var/cache at, > say, /mnt/cache in each Deb, and then set up a bunch of symlinks in each > Deb's /var/cache, pointing into the shareable parts of /mnt/cache. > > This doesn't answer the question of which parts of /var/cache are safely > shareable, but it does give you a strategy for sharing just the parts > that you know (or think) are safe. > > Good luck, > Andrew.
I think what I am going to do is the next time I switch to the other installation, I will call that partition /opts or something, there was an option in the sarge installer for a partition with info that a server will share, I will call it that. Then I will reconfigure both apt-build and apt-cacher to point to the /whatever_it's_called partition instead of /var/cache/apt-build and /var/cache/apt-cacher The idea of setting up a mess of symlinks to do what I want will lead to problems. I will forget some symlink or another. Configuration files for both apt-cacher and apt-build survive the backup/restore procedure so I should only have to do this once, but it will have to wait until the next switch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
