[Leaplist] moving /var/

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it...

/var in general is frequently written to, and would burn out your
ssd/sdcard quicker than you may like. An alternative is to mount /var/run,
/var/lock, and /var/tmp to a tmpfs partition (in RAM). To do this, simply
run the following command:

for x in run lock tmp ; do
mount -t tmpfs none /var/$x
done

... or modify fstab as appropriate. Each of those directories are designed
to be wiped/invalid at startup, and the only app I've found that doesn't
like this is mysqld (which creates a folder in /var/run, which of course
disappears on reboot... easy to fix once noted, but annoying... should
perhaps write up a patch and send to mysql.org).

For /var/log, either don't bother logging if you're so concerned, continue
to log on a standard hard drive, or log to a remote machine. I wouldn't
recommend logging to flash.
On Mon, February 8, 2010 12:26 pm, Tom Foster wrote:
> or at least /var/log...
>
> can I move var onto an sdcard and mount it there without any problems?, or
> maybe just /var/log?
>
> what should I look out for?
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