Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

[Christian Jaeger <christian.jaeger@sl.ethz.ch>]

Thanks;

At 14:24 Uhr -0700 5.7.2001, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Christian Jaeger wrote:
>
> >  - Are there no problems making /var (and /var/cache) and /tmp
> >  symlinks to another partition?
>
> Don't make them symlinks; just make them mount points. I always set up
> separate filesystems for /var and /tmp.

The thing is that for simplicity I would like to only have one 
separate partition (one reiser, one ext2).

>  > As a related question: besides disks, are there other pieces of the
> >  computer you can put to sleep on a server?
>
> Well, the monitor, certainly. Though I usually just turn it off if I'm
> not expecting to need to work at the console for a while.

Sure, I'm doing the same. I was thinking more about sound, usb and 
graphics cards. There must be ways to turn them off, at least in 
laptops and macintoshes (desktop macs can go to sleep like laptops). 
The network cards should stay up however.

Christian.