Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	felix@×××××××.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:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:04:30
Message-Id:	`20080812190306.GA19648@crowfix.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk? by Michael Higgins

1	On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:41:42AM -0700, Michael Higgins wrote:
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3	> So, I rsyncd /var to /home/varlink, moved /var to /oldvar, 'soft'
4	> linked /var to /home/varlink/var and restarted some services that
5	> were less than happy with the change, like the mail servers,
6	> mysql. Everything seems to work now.
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8	If you use qmail, you are in trouble, since it uses inode numbers
9	internally and they are unlikely to match across filesystems.
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