From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 1 11:12:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA29542 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 11:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA29537 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 11:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id VAA01867; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 21:10:27 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 21:10:27 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: Bryce Newall cc: Sinuralan , 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, 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