From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 13 22:55:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D9B106566C for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout019.mac.com (asmtpout019.mac.com [17.148.16.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54EB8FC17 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:55:36 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp019.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KT20053FL0CC040@asmtp019.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:55:25 -0800 (PST) Message-id: <07E2B7F8-3B7B-4B1C-AE6E-B5219BEDE769@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: David Allen In-reply-to: <2daa8b4e0911131448h3444444ag67ad05bbbf7df60@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:55:24 -0800 References: <474730.92984.qm@web65506.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <2daa8b4e0911131448h3444444ag67ad05bbbf7df60@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, James Phillips Subject: Re: APM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:55:36 -0000 Hi, David-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:48 PM, David Allen wrote: > There are options available in /etc/defaults/rc.conf to do just that, > but how does one copy over the contents of /var at system boot? I'd consider adding something to /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal (which normally mounts the local filesystems) to setup a RAMdisk on /var and then do "rsync -a /var_template /var" (or use a dump/restore or tar pipeline). Regards, -- -Chuck