Re: [Devil-linux-develop] attaching local HDD's ...

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >I'm building a server out of Linux for the first time.
> >What's the best way to mount a local hard drive on DL?
> >I can't just add a entry for the HDD in fstab to mount
> >it under /var since /var gets mounted elsewhere, can I?
> 
> http://www.devil-linux.org/newdoc/ch01s04.html
> Everything is prepared to use LVM and pre-defined mount points.

Before reading this email, I tried the following:

  fdisk /dev/hdb
  mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1
  mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
  cd /mnt ; tar xjpf /config/var.tar.bz2
  mv var/* . ; rmdir var
  echo "/dev/hdb1 /var reiserfs rw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
  cd; umount /mnt
  shutdown -r 0

And it worked!  I wasn't sure it would work since /var is a symlink,
but that didn't matter.  It mounted my HDD in /shm/var and works fine!

> >Speaking of custom things like this, someone ask about
> >a "rc.local" where a user could put their own commands
> >to be run on boot.  This sounds like a good idea to me.
> >(beats putting commands in my firewall.rules scripts
> >like I've been doing :)
> >
> >Is a "rc.local" the place for the mounting a HDD at /var ?
> 
> As Diego wrote in his email, just add *your* custom script.
> Take /etc/init.d/skeleton as the base.

Yeah, but that's a pain, just to add a boot command or two.

I recommend we add a empty "/etc/init.d/rc.local" file that gets run 
at the end of all the startup scripts.  (or one before the end, if
grsecurity has to be the very last one)  Do you care if I add it?

 - BS