Comments on: Trials of moving /var in Ubuntu

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:48:00 +0000

They need to exist on ‘/’, even though they will have ramdisk versions mounted over the top.

By: Yea good post but ..

Yea good post but .. — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:01:37 +0000

I Worry because the “special device /var/run does not exist” error appear when the system try to mount /var/run and /var/lock. I think than that are mounted in the / and not in the /var really partition.

Suggest ?

By: Marlon Nerling

Marlon Nerling — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:12:07 +0000

Thanks for posting…

By: Peter Bücker

Peter Bücker — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:56:44 +0000

I experienced the same problem during the last days after moving my /var onto a seperate partition. This was on a Ubuntu 6.06 system. Your trick helped me out Thanks!

By: robin

robin — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:41:52 +0000

I thought about that, but I figured it was worth fixing the problem properly, as it’s bitten me before (say a large system update, and the package cache fills up)

By: Tom Eastman

Tom Eastman — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:30:38 +0000

Why not just make /var/lib/mysql a symlink to somewhere like /home/mysql? It’s not perfect as a long-term solution but if all you’re doing is short-term experimentation it would have instantly meant that MySQL would have all the space it needed to do whatever it wanted, no mess.