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 1R2tuN-0001OH-FP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:57:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA42F21C1CA; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f52.google.com (mail-gw0-f52.google.com [74.125.83.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B7621C1BB for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj15 with SMTP id 15so3349982gwj.11 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:54:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qaWXK+dnQm2UXCw+x7L6s31an1tdnEPN/wkczhZfDoE=; b=KBwVD0jVgiLqRWPs7LGU781O9Vk6XvyVB61s6Z+D1pkuYEMqOYy0guOJmxw6NBSlye AxZsTbQeqT8dcn4Enqq/BVqWUwMHZHnO3vA3P74/UxIxKs5wG7U6kdXPAwusjEEP8TUQ 7gqZC3tB7L/49TCZv0bbeeb4ILFzGq+71xKH0= Received: by 10.150.104.16 with SMTP id b16mr1757187ybc.117.1315785287115; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-89-228.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.89.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c1sm684912ybo.13.2011.09.11.16.54.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E6D4A44.3050804@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:54:44 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110829 Firefox/6.0 SeaMonkey/2.3.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 30b5b211cdb8687482bc82dcbb7e8dff 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 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 :-) :-)