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From: Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com>
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 00:03:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHH9eM7bJNJ1mhpZ5-iX+3pOYYW10Lp4XjZ=Zt5hGA6q+epiLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E6D4A44.3050804@gmail.com>

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Thank you!

And I have found it as a partitioning example on the docs, with "/var" on
its own partition (
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap4
)

Francisco


On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-12  0:05 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 [this message]
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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