[CentOS] /var partition and recovery

Brian T. Brunner brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com
Fri Dec 2 17:26:23 UTC 2005


If you have a separate boot partition, I'd not only suggest making it a primary 
partition for the same reason, but also mounting it read-only for oops-protection.

Brian Brunner
brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com
(610)796-5838

>>> thebs413 at earthlink.net 12/02/05 12:17PM >>>
Robert <roberth at abbacomm.net> wrote:
> greetings
> bryan, did you say that in your experience the  /var
> partition should _not_ be on the extended partition table
for
> "recovery" purposes?

Nope, not at all.

I put /var in Extended, LVM and, if you can believe it, even
LDM (yes, Windows "dynamic disk" disk label format ;-).

I only avoid putting root (/) in anything but a primary
partition for recoverability.  Even if I use a separate /boot
(I rarely do -- I keep my root do only a few GBs max), I
still like it outside of any compound disk label.


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