On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:27:10PM +0100, Jean-Marie Renouard wrote:
How can we solve this problem in order to be able to restart a server
from a livecd with the same services running ?
How can we set up or mount /var in a read/write mode and keep original
data available too ?
The usual approach is to mount the directories needed as tmpfs (/var/run,
for example). Most of it is volatile data anyway, so it does not matter if
the contents disappear when rebooting.