On 04/24/2014 03:46 AM, jdd wrote:
but what about mariadb (mysql), log files, mail spool files?
Once, long ago, I forgot about /var/spool/mail and lost it all in an upgrade that reformatted /var. Never again! Now each user's mail is delivered to ~/Mail/INBOX You too can tweak procmail, Postfix or whatever your mail delivery agent is. Realistically, three is a lot of stuff in /var that you might not want to preserve across a reinstall or upgrade. YMMV. The move to put all the config under /etc was one I appreciated. Heck, some of us here date from the time before there was /home and the /usr tree was heavily over-populated! You might think what other relocations and symlinks/rebinds your could do.
I already moved /srv to /home. In fact, I create a /data folder in /home, with /srv folder in it and mount it bind on /srv
Personally I would just make /srv another partition and not reformat it when reinstalling/upgrading. But then the way I do backups is tied in to the way my disks are partitions (so that find and rsync can use the "-x" option to not cross partition boundaries). -- Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org