how do others deal with /var during upgrades?

Ian Mortimer ian at physics.uq.edu.au
Thu Feb 19 01:55:27 UTC 2004


>   under /var, you'd find things like web and ftp server data that you'd
> probably want to carry across to the new install.  on the other hand, 
> there's stuff like, perhaps, /var/log or /var/cache or /var/run that
> you might not care about.

Ideally /var/www, /var/ftp, /var/cvs, /var/mysql and the like should
each be on their own separate partition. 

Easy enough to do that using lvm.

-- 
Ian






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