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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:36:08 -0400
From: Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: vinum + /var ?
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when setting up a machine with vinum, is it ok to
symlink /var to a directory on a vinum partition?
does anything open files on /var before vinum starts?

i was thinking of doing something like this...

  # make a mirrored filesystem
  mirror -n local /dev/ad0s2e /dev/ad2s2e
  newfs -v /dev/vinum/local

  # cp /var to /usr/local/var
  cp -Rp /var /usr/local

  # now mount the vinum'd filesystem on /usr/local
  # over top of non-vinum /usr/local/...
  mount /dev/vinum/local /usr/local

  # cp /var again
  cp -Rp /var /usr/local

  # replace /var with a symlink to /usr/local/var
  mv /var /var.orig && ln -s /usr/local/var /var

is this ok? i'm copying /var twice so that the /var 
symlink will point to a viable /usr/local/var even if 
vinum isn't running (for use in single-user).
does this make sense? :-)
thanks.

- rob

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