Production server running from USB stilck with /var on HD

[agraham]

On 07/10/2012 01:39 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Suvayu,
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:25:46 +0200
>> From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>
>> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> Subject: Re: Production server running from USB stilck with /var on HD
>> ?
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>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>> Now I am thinking of installing to a USB stick but having all the
>>> changeable
>>> files on /var (or anywhwere else) symlinked to a dir on the HD for
>>> speed.
>>
>> If you have a HDD available, why do you want to run on a production
>> server on a USB stick at all?
>
>
> The bit you snipped from the top of the mail explained it - I want a
> quick way of swapping in a new OS without having to mess around with the
> HDs in the box.
>
> Phil.

If you can afford another USB stick, stick a different server on the end 
of it and call it Staging server running from USB stilck with /var on HD :)