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

:-)  :-)