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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:17:51
Message-Id: 200808031517.00399.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory by "Alan E. Davis"
1 On Sonntag, 3. August 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
2 > Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and
3 > it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I
4 > can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several
5 > partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass.
6 >
7 > 1. How could one reasonably link a subdir of a partition as a subdir or
8 > folder of one's ~/, for example, /dev/sdd3/VIDEO (partition on that
9 > partition called VIDEO) as a subdirectory, ~/VIDEO? I want ~/VIDEO to
10 > behave identically as it would if it were on the same partition as ~/ . At
11 > least to the greatest extent possible. I have seen some arcane arrangement
12 > somewhere, but to what extent is that necessary to do? I would rather
13 > avoid having to mount the entire parition as a subdir, and then have to
14 > access, for example, ~/ARCHIVE/VIDEO.
15
16 man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting.
17
18 >
19 > 2. As an aside, Nautllus (~/amd64 Gnome overlay, version 2.23.5.1)
20 > behavior differs from that in Ubuntu.
21
22 because ubuntu patches A LOT. Ubuntu-gnome is not gnome.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com>