On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:27:10PM +0100, Jean-Marie Renouard wrote: > How can we solve this problem in order to be able to restart a server > from a livecd with the same services running ? > How can we set up or mount /var in a read/write mode and keep original > data available too ? The usual approach is to mount the directories needed as tmpfs (/var/run, for example). Most of it is volatile data anyway, so it does not matter if the contents disappear when rebooting.