From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 17:56:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CE637B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E0843E5E for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DD39781470; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:26:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:26:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Rob Ellis Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum + /var ? Message-ID: <20020731005647.GE55347@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020730223607.GN68679@web.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020730223607.GN68679@web.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 30 July 2002 at 18:36:08 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: > when setting up a machine with vinum, is it ok to > symlink /var to a directory on a vinum partition? Yes. > does anything open files on /var before vinum starts? It shouldn't do. Vinum starts before non-root file systems get mounted, and that usually includes /var. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message