moving /var to a different partition

rore · 02-07-2002, 11:42 AM

I have read several articles about moving the swap file to a different partition. It seems to work fine. Does the same principle aply to the /var directory as well? I am concerned about error messages and mail overflowing on the /root volume and crashing the server. Has anyone done this and suceeded.

Thanks,
Ronnie

mervTormel · 02-07-2002, 12:13 PM

note well:

/var is a symlink to /private/var

% ll /var
lrwxr-xr-t 1 root admin 11 Feb 6 12:00 /var -> private/var/

moving it could work in theory, but break in the future.

what if there are hard link'd files in /var ?

perhaps start smaller and move /private/var/log somewhere and test test test!

rore · 02-08-2002, 05:10 AM

ok. I see your point. Somehow it bugs me that Osx and OsxS doesn´t let you choose a partitioning scheme like Linux does. I have no experience with how big temp files and logs really will be in a production environment. Also I was pretty confused to see three different fstab files in /etc. Since I am a Linux and OSX novice I am quite clueless if I should really switch from our ASIP Server to an OSX based one!

Thanks for your reply.
Ronnie

Novajo · 02-08-2002, 11:53 AM

You don't want your logs on a different partition: During reboot, stuff gets written to the log files. Not all partitions are mounted at that moment, they get mounted later. /var, being on the root partition is always accessible at boot time. If you had your logs somewhere else, you would not get the logs until the disk is mounted.

02-07-2002, 11:42 AM	#1
rore Prospect Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Posts: 6	moving /var to a different partition I have read several articles about moving the swap file to a different partition. It seems to work fine. Does the same principle aply to the /var directory as well? I am concerned about error messages and mail overflowing on the /root volume and crashing the server. Has anyone done this and suceeded. Thanks, Ronnie

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02-07-2002, 12:13 PM	#2
mervTormel League Commissioner Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 5,536	note well: /var is a symlink to /private/var % ll /var lrwxr-xr-t 1 root admin 11 Feb 6 12:00 /var -> private/var/ moving it could work in theory, but break in the future. what if there are hard link'd files in /var ? perhaps start smaller and move /private/var/log somewhere and test test test!

02-08-2002, 05:10 AM	#3
rore Prospect Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Posts: 6	ok. I see your point. Somehow it bugs me that Osx and OsxS doesn´t let you choose a partitioning scheme like Linux does. I have no experience with how big temp files and logs really will be in a production environment. Also I was pretty confused to see three different fstab files in /etc. Since I am a Linux and OSX novice I am quite clueless if I should really switch from our ASIP Server to an OSX based one! Thanks for your reply. Ronnie

02-08-2002, 11:53 AM	#4
Novajo Triple-A Player Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 185	You don't want your logs on a different partition: During reboot, stuff gets written to the log files. Not all partitions are mounted at that moment, they get mounted later. /var, being on the root partition is always accessible at boot time. If you had your logs somewhere else, you would not get the logs until the disk is mounted.