[ale] RE: mandrake upgrade (Herman, Izzie)

[Robert E. Karaffa, II]

Thanks mucho for the replies!  From what I've seen so far in my tests, /var is
moved en masse by diskdrake...everything including subdirectories gets moved. 
Can't ascertain if permissions are kept...although I see no reason for diskdrake
to change any of them.



Quoting "Van L. Loggins" <vloggins at turbocorp.com>:

> also if you need to actually keep any of the logs or info currently 
> existing in /var then you should back it up either to tape or by copying 
> it to another location and then put it back into the new location for /var
> we had a similar situation with our redhat based mail and proxy server 
> on our network. We  needed to keep the SQUID logs,etc.  for monitoring 
> purposes so simply deleting /var wasn't an option for us.
> this is my first post to the list, Hi guys!!! *Waves!!!*
> 
> Van Loggins
> 
> 
> 
> >I've never used disk drake...but when moving /var...you need to make sure
> >that all the same directories are there with the proper permissions and
> >ownerships so that programs can write to where the need to.
> >
> >Other than that, as long as it's in the fstab, you should be good.
> >
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