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Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: |
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> > If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall completely, depending on what |
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> > the drive does. The only safe thing is to build another firewall before |
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> > rebooting the current firewall (then see if fsck will fix it)....... |
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> Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the |
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> contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive |
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> on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process. |
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Earlier I posted the partitions: |
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/dev/hda3 18G 2.1G 16G 12% / |
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udev 125M 2.6M 123M 3% /dev |
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shm 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm |
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/dev/hda1 393M 46M 347M 12% /boot |
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since /var is part of / (on the same partition) will this still work? |
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> > Either way, once I build a new firewall, I'm going to copy it |
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> > to CF and be done with these old ide drives......... |
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> Use a suitable filesystem, or the flash memory will die very quickly, |
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> especially if you put /var on it. |
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What would be the best file system to use on said CF HD to extend the life? |
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I usually use the reiserfs on boot and root (simple partioning scheme). |
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But, I'm open to suggestions here. |
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The other thing I'm going to do is keep a master (k6) system with |
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a good HD for compiling updates and start distributing binaries |
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to all of the other k6 (586) firewalls.... That should greatly |
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help extend the life too..... (any ideas on the caveats of this |
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scheme are most welcome)..... |
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James |
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