Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:15:13 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:

> OK, been staring at this terminal for about an hour. I'm at
> root@sysresccd /mnt/gentoo where sda1 is mounted. Do I just mount sdb1
> on /mnt/gentoo too? Do I delete home and var then mkdirs on sdb2?
> Won't they just be re-made on the same partition, sda1? I've already
> unpacked portage on sdb1(mounted on usr), not a problem, I can just
> delete it. But why is it when I umount sdb1 from usr and mount it
> under /mnt/gentoo  I can't see portage under /mnt/gentoo? It's there
> when I mount sdb1 on usr. Do I need to fdisk /dev/sdb with all the
> relevant partitions? Then I'll have one big 4G partition on the SSD
> and a lot of little partitions on the 8G SD, no?

Create two partitions on sdb
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/gentoo/var
mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/gentoo/home

It's really not that hard, but you seem to be trying to find clever
solutions when the simple one will do.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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