On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:18:39 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > Now, was that a stupid thing to do, or should everything under /var > > continue to work still, without issues? > > afaik it should work. > > > > > /home is mounted in fstab, just like rootfs. I'm worried about a > > reboot not working for some reason . > > it should work. I would probably use bind mounting, but that is a > matter of taste. This was what I thought I should do, but wasn't sure how to do it. Makes sense now, seems to have worked well. > > 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? > > smartd Is this in portage? Cheers, -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org