Raid 1/10 on Fedora 15 and /var full

[Aero Maxx]

On 19/07/2012 11:08, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/19/2012 06:00 PM, Aero Maxx wrote:
>> I have a raid 1/10 setup working great doing what it does, but the /var partition
>> which I wasn't aware of until now is where my mysql database are stored and this
>> isn't on the raid 10, thats not that much of an issue, I would be gutted if I lost
>> the data though, but the main issue is that its now become full.
>>
>> Where you recommend for this /var to be put, or should I just make that partition
>> bigger ? for it to be raided that would be very nice.
> Actually, if I were running mysql I would configure it to have my databases on a
> partition that doesn't get affected by upgrades.
>
> For example, I run plenty of VirtualBox VM's and I keep them on /opt/VMs.  That way
> it is easy to exclude them when doing an install of the next version of
> fedora....much like having /home on its own partition.
>
>
I understand the concept, although am a little confused as to how I 
would achieve this, my databases at the moment are in /var/lib/mysql