[colug-432] How to Make /var Persist

Thu Feb 23 20:51:26 EST 2012

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:40:07 -0500, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:

> On Thursday, February 23, 2012 07:32:43 PM jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> >    sudo mount -t tmpfs - /var
> 
> That would be Bad. Everything in the system assumes that /var persists 
> across reboots ... 

Nuts. How about saving a copy (such as a tarball) of /var to flash 
when shutting down, and restoring when booting? Definitely icky. 

How would you solve Rob's Sheevaplug problem? 