From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:53:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110912015307.67a4b91e@weird.wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHH9eM6TiYq5CCEx2TSGB8vmb_UZF4keP2sb2kjQB60CDCzSxw@mail.gmail.com>
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 change in udev might require either
an initramfs, or /usr being on the root partition. And I read that the
same might be true for /var.
Wonko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-11 23:55 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 [this message]
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
2011-09-12 1:07 ` Dale
2011-09-12 12:11 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-09-13 5:52 ` Mick
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