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 1PDPgf-0002iM-3v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:50:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDB37E0730; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B907AE0730 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F931B428B for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:49:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.897 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.897 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.298, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6m+OzD-raZM5 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:49:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768A01B41C0 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PDPfj-0004ve-Rg for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:49:43 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-180-232.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.180.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:49:43 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-180-232.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:49:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:49:28 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4CCF519A.6060500@garygolden.me> <201011022232.26610.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201011022221.41527.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <201011030005.21833.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-180-232.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101031 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: <201011030005.21833.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: fcca90be-86af-43e6-b36b-838817172d91 X-Archives-Hash: f24f4dc66d93b2fa8ec949b0da376e49 On 11/02/2010 03:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Right now I sit with 60+ SLES 9 machines that cannot be taken offline for any > reason, and EVERY SINGLE ONE has one giant filesystem... > How did this happen? The man in charge three managers ago thought this was a > cool way to configure critical servers. Because "One filesystem mounted at /" > was option #1 on the disk page of the SLES install wizard. Thanks, I'm relieved to know that I'm not cut from managerial cloth :) I'm assuming that SUSE releases security patches from time to time. How do you keep all those machines up to date if you can't take them offline?