On Nov 26, 2015 08:30, "lee" <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: > > compromised with a small / partition, with empty /home, /opt, /var, > > /usr, and /tmp directories. Their real equivalents are bind-mounted > > from a much larger partition. > > Why don't you just mount the large partition somewhere under /mnt and > create symlinks to the directories that are missing on the small > partition?
wrt space, that doesn't really change things. wrt symlinks, some legacy tools, and regular unix tools have a completely different behavior when traversing symlinks as opposed to regular directories, which bindmounts emulate. although in practice i imagine it wont affect him. youre really just proposing a different way to do the same thing albeit his approach is more stable. > Or, why don't you copy the system to the disk that has the large > partition and retire the 500MB disk? That would reduce power > consumption and increase reliability by having less disks in use and by > making it more unlikely to mess up anything due to excessive > partitioning. its not 2 disks, its one disk and with partitions. at any rate his approach is valid.
