From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:06:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313180624.GA1250@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGXRR0MEQ6WG3vKyskyeMwcXo0JjEuKnTX8wBMPYHgg9pQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:04:00PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
> I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr,
> e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living somewhere else, on
> different partition and different filesystem. Let's say something mounted
> on /mnt/Persistent.
>
> My question: should I use bindmount or symlinks to do that? What's the
> drawbacks/benefits for either?
There might be some really rare occasions when you boot up in rescue
mode ("single") where a program expects a directory.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-13 5:04 [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink? Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 5:11 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 5:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 5:45 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 6:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 8:05 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 8:15 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 8:52 ` Philipp Riegger
2012-03-13 9:00 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 9:12 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 10:35 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-03-13 11:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 10:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 18:06 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
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