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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 21:15:13 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> > I'd put /home and /var on the SD card to start with, you may need to
> > put /usr/src on there too or your SSD may fill up when installing or
> > compiling a second or third kernel.
> >
> > I'd also move the portage tree there, but you can do that
> > post-installation by moving /usr/portage to /var/portage and changing
> > PORTDIR in make.conf.
> >
> > Mount the partitions in the relevant places for installation,
> > /mnt/gentoo/var etc.
>
> 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?

Think about this.

You have something mounted at /mnt/gentoo. You want to mount something else at 
/mnt/gentoo - this will succeed, but what makes you think you will then be 
able to see the files from the first thing mounted there?

Light bulb coming on yet?

You have two things to mount, so mount them on *different*directories* and mv 
files around to your heart's content.


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