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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:08:59
Message-Id: 20120313180624.GA1250@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink? by Pandu Poluan
1 On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:04:00PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
2 > I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr,
3 > e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living somewhere else, on
4 > different partition and different filesystem. Let's say something mounted
5 > on /mnt/Persistent.
6 >
7 > My question: should I use bindmount or symlinks to do that? What's the
8 > drawbacks/benefits for either?
9
10 There might be some really rare occasions when you boot up in rescue
11 mode ("single") where a program expects a directory.
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14 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>