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From: Michael Higgins <linux@×××××××.org>
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 00:13:13
Message-Id: 20080812171302.45766d92@lappy.evolone.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:18:39 +0200
2 Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, Michael Higgins wrote:
5 >
6 > > Now, was that a stupid thing to do, or should everything under /var
7 > > continue to work still, without issues?
8 >
9 > afaik it should work.
10 >
11 > >
12 > > /home is mounted in fstab, just like rootfs. I'm worried about a
13 > > reboot not working for some reason .
14 >
15 > it should work. I would probably use bind mounting, but that is a
16 > matter of taste.
17
18 This was what I thought I should do, but wasn't sure how to do it. Makes sense now, seems to have worked well.
19
20 > > As for the new disk, it is only new to this machine. It's SCSI and
21 > > sits on its own controller, reiserfs format. I think perhaps it
22 > > originally was intermittently failing in a higher-speed controller
23 > > and got swapped out. Is there a way I can keep regularly checking
24 > > it for performance issues, should any crop up?
25 >
26 > smartd
27
28 Is this in portage?
29
30 Cheers,
31
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