From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:28:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1315787335.57212.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E6D4A44.3050804@gmail.com>
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 on its own partition, I would ask a dev to see how
> you
> should plan. I could have misunderstood but I'm pretty sure it's
> coming. It may also depend on what you are going to be running too.
> I
> mention because no need doing it one way now and having to fix it
> later. That sucks!
>
> That said, I have /var on its own partition and mine boots fine,
> although I haven't rebooted in a week or so. I don't think the
> change
> has happened yet but is coming. I may have a different answer in a
> month or so. ;-)
>
> Dale
>
Hmm, that doesn't smell right to me. What I think you may have heard is
about /run. systemd and some other things are preferring to
move /var/run to /run. The reason being is that /var does not have to
be on the root fs. sysdemd needs /run early (before mounting
filesystems) so the idea was to put /var/run on the rootfs, thus /run.
I don't think /usr should or ever will be required to be on the rootfs.
That's just dumb. The reason we have /bin /sbin, etc. is so that /usr
need not be on the rootfs. It doesn't make sense to change that well
known/established notion.
See also the FHS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-12 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-11 23:16 [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition? Francisco Ares
2011-09-11 23:48 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-11 23:52 ` Francisco Ares
2011-09-11 23:53 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-13 13:23 ` Daniel Troeder
2011-09-13 15:30 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-09-11 23:54 ` Dale
2011-09-12 0:03 ` Francisco Ares
2011-09-12 0:16 ` Dale
2011-09-12 0:28 ` Albert W. Hopkins [this message]
2011-09-12 1:07 ` Dale
2011-09-12 12:11 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-09-13 5:52 ` Mick
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