On 04/12/2011 03:49 PM, gene heskett wrote: >> I suppose technically it is possible to create a /usr directory on the >> root partition and populate it with a core collection of programs so >> they are available early in booting and then merge the rest of /usr from >> another partition later on, but that's another PITA. > > Potentially much bigger than the one I seem to be having. I have > considered setting up log, as a separate partition mounted to /var/log, but > no one can tell me if when / goes read-only because something went tits > down in the deep end of the pool, and /var was a dir on /, would log then > be read-only too? I dunno.
If you mount /var/log as a separate partition, it may or may not get mounted. If the / partition is getting mounted read only, it's more than likely in single user mode, and likely as not, not mounted. In that case, I'd do a mount -o remount,rw / then do a mountall to bring up all your other mount points if you need to get to them. > > I can't reboot without using the reset button now, because /var is already > unmounted when halt calls whatever is after swapoff -a, and halt can't get > a lock, so the reboot is hung. Its BS ok, but it sure doesn't raise my > corn crops by the acre yield... Ah, you're having problems with the shutdown then. Does it do the same thing when you shut down or reboot from single user mode? > > But, having been burnt by no logs on 2 crashes before, having /var as a dir > on / (as fedora's installer demands) is simply not an option, I won't even > discuss it. Dittoes for me. The link above may be related but that was more for libs and bins on /usr. Did these reboot issues just start happening or have you had them since the machine build? > > Regards, Gene Cheers, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
