On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at 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 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, <m.roth at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com