So, in setting up a huge repository of junk, I mean, important business documents, I nearly ran out of disk space on rootfs. Much of it was living in /var, like half the disk's worth.
I'd just dropped a new disk in for /home... to move some Outlook files to IMAP & maildir folders. Had I been thinking ahead, I would have partitioned it for /var as well, but I didn't. So, I rsyncd /var to /home/varlink, moved /var to /oldvar, 'soft' linked /var to /home/varlink/var and restarted some services that were less than happy with the change, like the mail servers, mysql. Everything seems to work now. Now, was that a stupid thing to do, or should everything under /var continue to work still, without issues? /home is mounted in fstab, just like rootfs. I'm worried about a reboot not working for some reason . As for the new disk, it is only new to this machine. It's SCSI and sits on its own controller, reiserfs format. I think perhaps it originally was intermittently failing in a higher-speed controller and got swapped out. Is there a way I can keep regularly checking it for performance issues, should any crop up? Cheers, -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org
