On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Is there a way to get /home, /var, and /opt installed as directories on that other "one big partition"? /var in particular has an odd mix of OS and 'your' data and logs that may turn out to be big. And you may not know ahead of time what to allocate for it as a separate mount point.
Here at work, /home is *always* NFS-mounted. Even so, I'd think 250G is easily big enough for / to include /var, even with a moderately large d/b there.
But as a generic question: is there a way to get the installer to put some top-level directories into subdirectories on a different volume so they share space but aren't part of the root volume? You can do each as a separate mount point, but sometimes I want the effect you get with symlinks - which involves some awkward juggling for system-installed directories that already have contents.