Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Saturday 05 May 2007, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:
> > Surely you meant "move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition"?
>
>   Let me rephrase myself...
>   - *PHYSICALLY* moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home partition.
>   - bind mount (or symlink) these directories to the / partition

OK, I see what you mean. Personally, I would have done it slightly 
differently:

- create a partition with /home, /usr, /tmp, /var directories
- mount this somewhere, say /stuff
- mount -o bind /stuff/home /home
- etc ...

But that's because I know myself and I know if I did it your way I'd 
confuse the dickens out of myself three days later when finding a usr/, 
var/, tmp/ inside /home. It seems that human memory is like those Flash 
NAND things - it deterioriates with age, hehehe :-)

alan


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