Mark David Dumlao <[email protected]> writes: > On Nov 26, 2015 08:30, "lee" <[email protected]> wrote: >> [email protected] writes: >> > compromised with a small / partition, with empty /home, /opt, /var, >> > /usr, and /tmp directories. Their real equivalents are bind-mounted >> > from a much larger partition. >> >> Why don't you just mount the large partition somewhere under /mnt and >> create symlinks to the directories that are missing on the small >> partition? > > wrt space, that doesn't really change things. > wrt symlinks, some legacy tools, and regular unix tools have a completely > different behavior when traversing symlinks as opposed to regular > directories, which bindmounts emulate. although in practice i imagine it > wont affect him.
Which tools come to mind? > youre really just proposing a different way to do the same thing albeit his > approach is more stable. Yes, there are many possibilities here. >> Or, why don't you copy the system to the disk that has the large >> partition and retire the 500MB disk? That would reduce power >> consumption and increase reliability by having less disks in use and by >> making it more unlikely to mess up anything due to excessive >> partitioning. > > its not 2 disks, its one disk and with partitions. He said that he "has a primary partition 1, which covers the entire hard drive" and "a small / partition". That made me think that he has two disks. > at any rate his approach is valid.
