Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

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On 01/23/2015 04:24 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 01:36:35PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an 
>> existing partition as /boot or /var (or any subdirectory of those 
>> except /var/www ) without reformatting it. i.e., you can't reuse an 
>> existing partition with those mountpoints.
> 
> Well, somebody with a carefully crafted configuration in /var/named/,
> for example, presumably will be not very happy.  I wonder why /var/www/
> is singled out for a special treatment?
> 
>> The main driving force for this is 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1074358 
> 
> And /var comes into this picture how?  Just curious.
> 

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 ....

- rejy (rmc)

>     Michal
> 
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