Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, Michael Higgins wrote:

> Now, was that a stupid thing to do, or should everything under /var
> continue to work still, without issues?

afaik it should work.

>
> /home is mounted in fstab, just like rootfs. I'm worried about a reboot not
> working for some reason .

it should work. I would probably use bind mounting, but that is a matter of 
taste. 

>
> As for the new disk, it is only new to this machine. It's SCSI and sits on
> its own controller, reiserfs format. I think perhaps it originally was
> intermittently failing in a higher-speed controller and got swapped out. Is
> there a way I can keep regularly checking it for performance issues, should
> any crop up?

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