Thanks guys for the info. I understand that the secondary machine needs a /var too while in standby, and since it can't also mount it as part of the DRBD array, then it has to be a vanilla partition on both machines. Thanks for clearing that up. On Saturday 31 May 2008 09:28, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > You would be better off by using a DRBD partition for "/var/lib/mysql" > and leaving the rest of "/var" out of DRBD. But DRBD only replicates entire physical devices right? So I would have to re-partition... if so I can't do that. But we could move mySQL files to /home or something as well. Not pretty but it should work.