From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R2ts5-0000yi-IC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:55:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F59721C1C2; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093B321C1B0 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (p5B277CEA.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.124.234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 42BCC39A001 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:53:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:53:07 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition? Message-ID: <20110912015307.67a4b91e@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 062a0eb4ce7cd9c6ec146013178ffa0b 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