Hello on Friday morning! On Sep 28 20:31 Carlos E. R. wrote (excerpt):
I have /var on a separate partition too (on several systems) ... I don't think /var can be shared, it contains "variables", files
On 2017-09-28 01:58, Larry Finger wrote: that depend on each machine.
Rest assured one cannot share things like '/var/', cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard that reads (excerpt) --------------------------------------------------------------- /var Variable files-files whose content is expected to continually change during normal operation of the system-such as logs, spool files, and temporary e-mail files. --------------------------------------------------------------- I guess when /var is shared between systems that do not run at the same time and run sufficiently same software versions, then things might not too badly fail for spool files and temporary e-mail files (except various inconsistencies (who cares about consistency ;-) and the logs would look more and more strage over time (who cares about logs ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org