On 09/12/2011 01:53 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
Francisco Ares writes:
Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during
boot?
This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var
directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would be
On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 03:23:45 PM Daniel Troeder wrote:
On 09/12/2011 01:53 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
Francisco Ares writes:
Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during
boot?
This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var
On 9/11/2011 8:28 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr
and /var
will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot.
Hmm, that doesn't smell right to me. What I think you
On Monday 12 Sep 2011 13:11:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 9/11/2011 8:28 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr
and /var
will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot.
Hi, All
Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during boot?
Or do the boot process need it to read/write to it?
I have found that mounting local file systems is one of the very first tasks
on rc boot.
Thanks
Francisco
Yes. Man fstab.
On Sep 11, 2011 7:19 PM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, All
Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during boot?
Or do the boot process need it to read/write to it?
I have found that mounting local file systems is one of the very first
tasks
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. Man fstab.
On Sep 11, 2011 7:19 PM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, All
Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during boot?
Or do the boot process need it to read/write to it?
Francisco Ares writes:
Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during
boot?
This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var
directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would be
worse).
But this might change - the upcoming
Francisco Ares wrote:
Hi, All
Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during boot?
Or do the boot process need it to read/write to it?
I have found that mounting local file systems is one of the very first
tasks on rc boot.
Thanks
Francisco
I think I saw it mentioned
Thank you!
And I have found it as a partitioning example on the docs, with /var on
its own partition (
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap4
)
Francisco
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Francisco Ares wrote:
Hi,
Francisco Ares wrote:
Thank you!
And I have found it as a partitioning example on the docs, with /var
on its own partition
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap4)
Francisco
That could be changing tho. It is documented that way now but the
On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr
and /var
will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot.
That's
was my understanding of this mess. So, if you are about to do a
install
that needs /var
Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr
and /var
will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot.
That's
was my understanding of this mess. So, if you are about to do a
install
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