On Mon, Sep 09 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/09/2013 00:26, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 09 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:51 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>>> In fstab I have >>>> /dev/vg/var /mnt/var ext4 defaults 0 2 >>>> I also have >>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 31 16:13 /var -> mnt/var >>>> >>>> This has worked ok but revdep-rebuild is not happy >>> >>> I think it's the symlink the thing that is making revdep-rebuild >>> unhappy. Have you tried to bind mount /mnt/var into /var? >>> >>> mount -o bind /mnt/var /var >> >> Works great. Thanks. To make it permanent I put >> /mnt/var /var ext4 bind 0 0 >> right under >> /dev/vg/var /mnt/var ext4 defaults 0 2 >> in /etc/fstab > > I'm curious as to why you do that, I can't see any benefit at all. > > The "var" filesystem is an LV and is only useful if it is mounted at > /var where packages expect it to be. Why add the extra complexity of > mounting it somewhere else and then bind mounting it to the pnly place > it can be useful?
An old habit/belief that mounts go in /mnt. Since both revdep-rebuild and you believe this is a bad habit, I now mount directly on /var /opt. > There's rules of thumb about this that will always work: > > No object in /tmp can be expected to survive successive invocations of > the program that created the object, and never survive a reboot; > No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot > > The best place for temp files, ironically, is ~ I set tmpwatch and wipe_tmp so that files survive in /tmp and /var/tmp for a month. I don't like ~ for temp files since on some, admittedly rare, occasions I actually use the gnome gui file manager and don't want a huge ~. I have long ago created ~/tmp (also cleaned after a month by tmpwatch) so the only problem is breaking the habit of placing short-term files in /tmp instead of ~/tmp. I realize that habit is bad for my (system's) health, but still find it hard to break. I shall try again. Perhaps this is very mild form of what intelligent smokers feel :-). allan
