Some directories may need to be in the root directory to boot your system, but one way around your problem is symbolic links. Look at how /usr/tmp actually points to /var/tmp. (Which caused me grief once when I filled up my / partition by creating a large file in /usr/tmp. My /usr partition had gigabytes free, my / didn't, and since I was running MandrakeUpdate at the time, my RPM database was so corrupted I had to format and reinstall). So you could create a /new_drive/log directory, and point /log to that. Along with /home if you prefer. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Olaf Marzocchi Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mounting partitions in more than one place Let's imagine this situation: 2 HD, 3 partitions on the first one (FAT32, ReiserFS and swap) and one on the second one (FAT32). I decide to use the 2nd HD for Linux, so I format it as ReiserFS, but that HD is too big to use it only for /home so I decide to mount it in two (or three) points: /home, /var (and /logs). Is it possible? It would be great: nowadays HDs are very big but wasting space by making more than one partition is stupid (for example, I don't know how much space I will need in /home and in /var: what to do?) Thank you Olaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> use ONLY this for normal messages except <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for attachements and in case of problems with the first.
