varlock and varrun

[Christoph Pleger]

Hello,

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:55:34 +0100
Jack Wasey <ubuntu at jackwasey.com> wrote:


> > I assume that you simply do not have a separate partition for /var,
> > but that it is on the root partition. But I have separate partitions
> > for it, on my CD-installed system as well as on my
> > debootstrap-installed system.
> > 
> > Regards
> >   Christoph
> > 
> 
> If you have a separate var, then you _should_ find that the root 
> partition nevertheless contains /var/lock and /var/run partitions.
> This  means that the tmpfs mounts can occur against a bare root
> partition,  then once /var is up, it sits side-by-side with the tmpfs
> partitions.  /var should not have run and lock directories.
> 
> Hope that helps.

Yes, that did it. Thanks for your help.

Regards
  Christoph