Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 21:10:27 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Bryce Newall <data@ds9.abac.com> Cc: Sinuralan <sin@cowz.lumiere-cc.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var as symlink Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970601210956.1859A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970601104246.6228C-100000@ds9.abac.com>
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On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Bryce Newall wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Sinuralan wrote: > > > Just wanted to check and see if anybody knows for sure whether replacing > > /var with a symlink to something like /usr/var (with all appropriate > > subdirs) would work. > > As long as /usr is on your root partition, I don't see any reason why it > wouldn't work. However, as far as I know, the system needs to access > files in /var during the boot process, and if you have /var linked to a > directory that's on another filesystem, and that filesystem isn't mounted > yet, you may run into problems. Not so. /var need not be part of the root filesystem. By default it isn't. > > ********************************************************************** > * Bryce Newall * IRC: Data * Email: data@dal.net * > * WWW: http://voyager.abac.com/data * IRC Admin, voyager.dal.net * > * --== Try DALnet! Server irc.dal.net, port 7000 ==-- * > * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * > * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * > ********************************************************************** > > Nadav
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