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On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 08:01:17PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote |
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> Great. Perhaps you could create some unusual setups (perhaps in a |
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> full-VM), so we can build an test platform on it. |
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> IIRC the main problem are scenarios where /usr is not available |
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> at boot, eg. has to be mounted from somewhere else (eg. NFS). |
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> So, our test platform should have such setups. |
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I run with an "interesting" setup at home which could be a "torture |
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test" for mounting. fdisk shows... |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sda1 63 976768064 488384001 5 Extended |
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/dev/sda5 126 996029 497952 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda6 996093 8819684 3911796 82 Linux swap / Solaris |
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/dev/sda7 8819748 976768064 483974158+ 83 Linux |
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sda1 is the entire harddrive |
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sda5 is the 250 megabyte / partition using ext2fs (YES!) |
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sda6 is the swap partition |
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sda7 is the rest of the harddrive using reiserfs |
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/opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp are are bindmounted from /home like so... |
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/dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async 0 1 |
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/dev/sda7 /home reiserfs noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 |
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/home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto bind 0 0 |
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/home/bindmounts/var /var auto bind 0 0 |
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/home/bindmounts/usr /usr auto bind 0 0 |
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/home/bindmounts/tmp /tmp auto bind 0 0 |
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This allows me to... |
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* use a really small / partition, without resorting to LVM |
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* not worry about running out of space in other partitions |
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* I started using it years ago when I had not decided which distro to |
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use. I could wipe the contents of /opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp but keep |
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my data, emails, etc, in my user directory and install another distro |
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without blowing away my data. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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