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wswartzendruber
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| I have a /run directory. What is this and where did it come from? |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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wswartzendruber,
Shhh ... everyone will want one :)
It comes free with udev and or openrc. It used to be /var/run but now its needed before /var is mounted, so it was migrated to /run in tmpfs.
Its some read/write space thats available very early in the boot process.
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avx
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | Shhh ... everyone will want one  |
I'm not really sure, "want" is adequate, being forced to have fits better - damn Poettering/RH 
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Gusar
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Before /run, there was /dev/.udev. No one seemed to mind that, even though it did the same thing.
Oh, and must be nice to blame Poettering/RH for something that comes from Debian. |
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Jaglover
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avx
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| Gusar wrote: | | Oh, and must be nice to blame Poettering/RH for something that comes from Debian. |
Really, debilian? I'm sorry, taking that back. But still, there's more than enough that weirdo is to blame for...
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NeddySeagoon
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Jaglover,
Where else can it go?
Its created very ealy in the boot proess.
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Kollin
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | Jaglover,
Where else can it go?
Its created very ealy in the boot proess. |
initramfs of course 
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Jaglover
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I think I'm getting old, too conventional maybe, but I really did not like it when I saw it first. Come on, you put stuff in my / without even asking? What about /tmp/run for instance (assuming /tmp is in tmpfs)? /tmp is a legit tenant in / after all.
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avx
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They wanted to find a place, which is not prone to be on another partition, so no /{usr,var,tmp,opt}.
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The Doctor
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| avx wrote: | | They wanted to find a place, which is not prone to be on another partition, so no /{usr,var,tmp,opt}. |
Seems to me that is what /etc was made for, but that is just my opinion.
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Gusar
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| /etc is not necessarily writable. Also, this is runtime data, while /etc is for static configuration. /var is the place for such data, but they needed some writable place already before /var gets mounted. |
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Split off the off-topic continuation to systemd / udev Slugfest Number Elevendy-Eleven.
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