Re: [gentoo-user] why does revdep-rebuild object to mounting /var on /mnt/var ?

On Mon, Sep 09 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:51 PM,  <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
>> In fstab I have
>>   /dev/vg/var  /mnt/var  ext4  defaults  0 2
>> I also have
>>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 31 16:13 /var -> mnt/var
>>
>> This has worked ok but revdep-rebuild is not happy
>
> I think it's the symlink the thing that is making revdep-rebuild
> unhappy. Have you tried to bind mount /mnt/var into /var?
>
> mount -o bind /mnt/var /var

Works great.  Thanks.  To make it permanent I put
    /mnt/var     /var      ext4     bind       0 0
right under
    /dev/vg/var  /mnt/var  ext4     defaults   0 2
in /etc/fstab

>> Should I also mount directly onto /tmp and /opt?
>
> I don't think so, although /tmp is preferred to be a tmpfs now, I
> believe (in both systemd and OpenRC, if I'm not mistaken).

To use tmpfs I will first have to teach myself not to put things in /tmp
that I expect to need for only a few days (I have wipe_tmp="NO"; and use
30 days for tmpwatch).

thanks again,
allan