On 08/31/2012 11:04 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > I'm struggling to understand this. In the situation you outline (/ ok, > /usr, /var, /tmp, swap on another RAID which is hosed) -- whatever service > the machine was offering is surely not being offered anymore (/ being too > small to be useful for anything except a rescue environment). So / surviving > whilst all your services/data are dead doesn't seem to be a big win to me at > all. Am I missing a detail? > The rootfs contains all the configuration (eg: /etc), and stuff like /etc/lvm/archive/, RAID UUID, and all sorts of things which are vital if you want to have any chance of recovering the rest (eg: your data hosted in /var).
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