On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Hennebry > <hennebry at 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. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods