Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 23 17:42:16 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 10:30 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:27:56PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 12:16 +0530, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
> > 
> > > And why the subdirectories in /var cannot be mountpoints for
> > > existing partitions ? There are a way lot of subdirectories, 
> > > where partitions with existing data would have to be mounted, 
> > > like www, ftp, tftp, named, spool/mail ....
> > 
> > I couldn't say precisely why, I don't know the background of why 
> > the design is that way. I'd guess the logic is that there's 
> > nothing important in /var itself,
> 
> Hmm, this is getting really curious.  OTOH if you are going to sick 
> anaconda on an existing system that means that you are reinstalling. 
>  So one may argue that a "nothing important" logic really applies 
> across the board and why some "weird exceptions"? In other words if 
> you care you better have backups as you cannot really predict in 
> advance what all of sudden will be deemed disposable.

There's nothing 'unpredictable' in this, it's for custom partitioning, 
and it raises an error with details when it decides not to let you do 
something. Just try re-using an existing partition as / without 
formatting it to see what I mean (that check exists in the F21 code). 
It doesn't just start silently formatting stuff behind your back.
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