On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Make /home , /var and /opt soft links to directories on /onebigpartition . I've done similar when I wanted /home off the root partition, but did not want to give it its own partition. I tried to do a rebind, but could not make it work.
I've done that after installs, but for /var at least it requires copying the contents to the target of the symlink before switching and a reboot after the change to make everything use the new location. I was wondering if it is possible to make the installer set it up that way in the first place - that is, with /var, /home, and /opt sharing space in a filesystem other than the root.