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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.

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Nadav



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