On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
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.
Mine was post-install also. Neve tried it otherwise.
You might try this: Make the desired /home , /opt and /var directories empty. Make the desired root partition empty except for soft links. Tell the installer not to format the root partition. Maybe it will do the right thing.