On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:17:29PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote: > Um... You can't mount /home, /tmp, /usr, and /var on hda5. You can only > mount a partition at one place at a time.
Well, you sort of can: telinit 1 (ie, go to single user mode) mkdir /storage mount /dev/hda5 /storage mkdir /storage/home /storage/usr /storage/var /storage/tmp cp -a /home /storage/home cp -a /var /storage/var cp -a /usr /storage/usr cp -a /tmp /storage/tmp rm -rf /tmp /usr /home /var cd / ln -s ./storage/var var ln -s ./storage/usr usr ln -s ./storage/home home ln -s ./storage/tmp tmp This makes home var usr and tmp share one big partition, that you access via symlinks as normal. > ...I'm not sure you want to mount /tmp seperately. To be on the safe > side... might want to leave that where it is. Mounting /tmp as it's own partition is a really good idea; it prevents out of control programs and users from using /tmp to fill up your system disks. In kernel 2.4.x, you can even mount tmpfs there, and take advantage of tmp files rarely getting written to disk. M
