On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 08:01:17PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote > Great. Perhaps you could create some unusual setups (perhaps in a > full-VM), so we can build an test platform on it. > > IIRC the main problem are scenarios where /usr is not available > at boot, eg. has to be mounted from somewhere else (eg. NFS). > So, our test platform should have such setups.
I run with an "interesting" setup at home which could be a "torture test" for mounting. fdisk shows... Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 976768064 488384001 5 Extended /dev/sda5 126 996029 497952 83 Linux /dev/sda6 996093 8819684 3911796 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 8819748 976768064 483974158+ 83 Linux sda1 is the entire harddrive sda5 is the 250 megabyte / partition using ext2fs (YES!) sda6 is the swap partition sda7 is the rest of the harddrive using reiserfs /opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp are are bindmounted from /home like so... /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp /tmp auto bind 0 0 This allows me to... * use a really small / partition, without resorting to LVM * not worry about running out of space in other partitions * I started using it years ago when I had not decided which distro to use. I could wipe the contents of /opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp but keep my data, emails, etc, in my user directory and install another distro without blowing away my data. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
