From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPdB2-00036I-Nc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:59:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C478E03B3; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (aa013msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34584E03B3 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.8) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 488DA28700D78F0A for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:59:09 +0200 Message-ID: <4895ADC6.9090207@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:08:22 +0200 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080731) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory References: <7bef1f890808030500s3f6ccf52sa9e06be69f6bacd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890808030500s3f6ccf52sa9e06be69f6bacd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ad17dc82-4eed-40ad-aa34-ba799bd972b3 X-Archives-Hash: 53c304fd5ed0767ca77b70c53281d7c3 Alan E. Davis ha scritto: > Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and > it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I > can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several > partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass. > > 1. How could one reasonably link a subdir of a partition as a subdir or > folder of one's ~/, for example, /dev/sdd3/VIDEO (partition on that > partition called VIDEO) as a subdirectory, ~/VIDEO? I want ~/VIDEO to > behave identically as it would if it were on the same partition as ~/ . > At least to the greatest extent possible. I have seen some arcane > arrangement somewhere, but to what extent is that necessary to do? I > would rather avoid having to mount the entire parition as a subdir, and > then have to access, for example, ~/ARCHIVE/VIDEO. What's wrong with using symbolic links? m.