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From: Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:15:49
Message-Id: 48A227A7.3070604@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk? by Michael Higgins
1 Michael Higgins wrote:
2 > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:18:39 +0200
3 > Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, Michael Higgins wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> Now, was that a stupid thing to do, or should everything under /var
8 >>> continue to work still, without issues?
9 >> afaik it should work.
10 >>
11 >>> /home is mounted in fstab, just like rootfs. I'm worried about a
12 >>> reboot not working for some reason .
13 >> it should work. I would probably use bind mounting, but that is a
14 >> matter of taste.
15 >
16 > This was what I thought I should do, but wasn't sure how to do it. Makes sense now, seems to have worked well.
17 >
18 >>> As for the new disk, it is only new to this machine. It's SCSI and
19 >>> sits on its own controller, reiserfs format. I think perhaps it
20 >>> originally was intermittently failing in a higher-speed controller
21 >>> and got swapped out. Is there a way I can keep regularly checking
22 >>> it for performance issues, should any crop up?
23 >> smartd
24 >
25 > Is this in portage?
26 >
27 > Cheers,
28 >
29 sys-apps/smartmontools
30 Available versions: 5.36-r1 5.37 ~5.37-r1 5.38 {minimal static}
31 Installed versions: 5.38(21:59:32 06/13/08)(-minimal -static)
32 Homepage: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
33 Description: control and monitor storag
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