From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 1 10:44:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28679 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ds9.abac.com (qmailr@ds9.abac.com [206.171.121.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28674 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6267 invoked by uid 501); 1 Jun 1997 17:43:49 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:43:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: Sinuralan cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var as symlink In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ********************************************************************** * 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 * **********************************************************************