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



On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:24:56PM -0700, 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.
> 
Yep - me too!

> > - Getting it right for the boot process (should I make / reiser or 
> > ext2?): I assume I need to have /etc, /bin and /sbin on the root 
> > partition. What about /usr?
> 
> It's never occurred to me to put /etc, /bin, or /sbin on any filesystem
> other than the root. I would guess that that would not be a good idea,
> since the boot process might (?) need access to them before it gets
> around to mounting all the default filesystems (for one thing, the mount
> command itself lives in /bin), but I'm not really sure.

In the interests of maximising hard-disc usage, I once moved the contents
of /lib to another partition (non-root) and created a sym-link. An hour
later I had repaired the damage - it really don't like it!!! :-(

Matthew

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Matthew Sackman
Nottingham,
ENGLAND

Using Debian/GNU Linux
Enjoying computing

It said 'Required Windows XP or better.'
So I installed Linux.

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