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I'll admit that my system setup is a bit unusual. A long time ago, in |
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a place far away, hard drives were small, compared to today's standards. |
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The usual unix practice of multiple seprate partitions was not feasable |
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for me, but I did want to keep root on its own partition. So I |
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compromised with a small / partition, with empty /home, /opt, /var, |
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/usr, and /tmp directories. Their real equivalents are bind-mounted |
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from a much larger partition. I just re-did my oldest machine. It has |
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a primary partition 1, which covers the entire hard drive. The / |
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partion on /dev/sda5 is approximately 500 megabytes (YES!). There's a |
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3.8 gigabyte swap partion /dev/sda6, and the rest of the drive is |
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/dev/sda7. Here's the relevant portion of /etc/fstab... |
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/dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,async 0 1 |
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/dev/sda7 /home ext3 noatime,async 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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/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0 |
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...and the output from "df"... |
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on |
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/dev/root 495944 49416 420928 11% / |
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devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev |
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tmpfs 310080 356 309724 1% /run |
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shm 1550384 0 1550384 0% /dev/shm |
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cgroup_root 10240 0 10240 0% /sys/fs/cgroup |
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/dev/sda7 476205120 292365556 159643008 65% /opt |
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...showing /dev/sda7 mounted on /opt !?!? mc (Midnight Commander) shows |
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152 of 454 gigabytes free on all of /home, /opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp, |
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which is correct, since they're all really bindmounts from /dev/sda7. |
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The / partition (/dev/sda5) has 411 of 484 megabytes free. The machine |
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works OK, but the "df" output is a head-scratcher. I've re-booted a |
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couple of times, with no change. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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