Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?

[Dale]

Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
>
> On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
>
>> I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr
>> and /var
>> will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot.
>> That's
>> was my understanding of this mess.  So, if you are about to do a
>> install
>> that needs /var on its own partition, I would ask a dev to see how
>> you
>> should plan.  I could have misunderstood but I'm pretty sure it's
>> coming.  It may also depend on what you are going to be running too.
>> I
>> mention because no need doing it one way now and having to fix it
>> later.  That sucks!
>>
>> That said, I have /var on its own partition and mine boots fine,
>> although I haven't rebooted in a week or so.  I don't think the
>> change
>> has happened yet but is coming.  I may have a different answer in a
>> month or so.  ;-)
>>
>> Dale
>>
> Hmm, that doesn't smell right to me.  What I think you may have heard is
> about /run.  systemd and some other things are preferring to
> move /var/run to /run.  The reason being is that /var does not have to
> be on the root fs.  sysdemd needs /run early (before mounting
> filesystems) so the idea was to put /var/run on the rootfs, thus /run.
>
> I don't think /usr should or ever will be required to be on the rootfs.
> That's just dumb.  The reason we have /bin /sbin, etc. is so that /usr
> need not be on the rootfs.  It doesn't make sense to change that well
> known/established notion.
>
> See also the FHS.
>

Have you been here the last week or so?  We have been discussing this 
change for that long.  I got the info from -dev.  Alex posted the same 
so I guess I was reading it right.  I agree it is dumb but that doesn't 
appear to sway the devs a bit.

Dale

:-)  :-)