On Wed, 2021-04-28 at 07:40 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > I like having /var as a separate volume because when it was EXT4 I > could do a reinstall and format / without losing data in /var. I > setup using subvolumes this time before I realized that was no longer > possible. I guess it could make snapshots easier though...
It was supposedly still possible, but difficult, to have /var as a separate drive/partition/etc (it needed to be mounted very early during the boot process, was my recollection). Possibly the simplest workaround was to not separate var from /, but put *some* of your data subdirectories elsewhere, and mount them into /var. e.g. /var/www could be on a separate drive. It's usually not needed while booting up, so it shouldn't matter if it's mounted a bit later. Traditionally, having /var separate was done for a couple of reasons; it could be put on a faster drive/partition, and its ever-changing data can thrash the drive harder than other partitions. With SDDs having wear-out problems, some of those traditional reasons have returned. -- uname -rsvp Linux 5.11.15-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 16 14:19:43 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
