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From: Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 01:11:37
Message-Id: CAG2nJkM7L=varhcK04OgSSo6tAEzPUkSytq+wN8XjVF0AETzFw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output by lee
1 On Nov 26, 2015 08:30, "lee" <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
2 > waltdnes@××××××××.org writes:
3 > > compromised with a small / partition, with empty /home, /opt, /var,
4 > > /usr, and /tmp directories. Their real equivalents are bind-mounted
5 > > from a much larger partition.
6 >
7 > Why don't you just mount the large partition somewhere under /mnt and
8 > create symlinks to the directories that are missing on the small
9 > partition?
10
11 wrt space, that doesn't really change things.
12 wrt symlinks, some legacy tools, and regular unix tools have a completely
13 different behavior when traversing symlinks as opposed to regular
14 directories, which bindmounts emulate. although in practice i imagine it
15 wont affect him.
16
17 youre really just proposing a different way to do the same thing albeit his
18 approach is more stable.
19
20 > Or, why don't you copy the system to the disk that has the large
21 > partition and retire the 500MB disk? That would reduce power
22 > consumption and increase reliability by having less disks in use and by
23 > making it more unlikely to mess up anything due to excessive
24 > partitioning.
25
26 its not 2 disks, its one disk and with partitions. at any rate his approach
27 is valid.

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