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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] New install, /var on tmpfs
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:39:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802060839.46952.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43ba12950802052219m2e8ce3ebw6d33f4f0d5ed6b1b@mail.gmail.com>

On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Tonko Mulder wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm doing a new install and since I put /tmp on tmpfs I was wondering
> if I could put /var on tmpfs as well.

no.

/var/lib
and
/var/db 

contains essential data.

/var/log

also contains data that should survive a reboot.

You can put 
/var/tmp
on tmpfs, but 'the spec' says, that stuff in /var/tmp should survive a reboot.

So 
/var/tmp/portage

that is save.
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06  6:19 [gentoo-amd64] New install, /var on tmpfs Tonko Mulder
2008-02-06  7:39 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2008-02-06  7:47   ` Tonko Mulder
2008-02-06 10:19     ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2008-02-06 11:53       ` Tonko Mulder
2008-02-06 12:22         ` Duncan
2008-02-06 12:41           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-02-06 20:32             ` Duncan

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