I've been caught out so many times by making one partition too small and another too large, that I developed (re-invented probably) a scheme to keep track of links.
Instead of /virtual/location/of/foo -> /actual/location/of/foo I created a directory /links/ such that: /virtual/location/of/foo -> /links/foo -> /actual/location/of/foo So if I move foo I only needed to update /links/foo -> /new/location/of/foo without having to update /home/yuri/foo -> /links/foo /home/julia/foo -> /links/foo eg each user has ~/mp3 -> /links/mp3 where /links/mp3 is a link to my mp3 folder which I've had to move to another partition. If I move it again I don't need to update the link in everyone's home dir. Now the poll: Kludge or Elegant Solution(tm)? </ramble> Yuri >> Steve Brorens wrote: >> > By the way, this whole business of multiple filesystems and having to >> > preset the sizes is A Real Pain for users used to any other OS - is >> > there any move to fix whatever obscure archaic reason there once was for >> > this requirement? >> >> LVM in the 2.6 kernel should be the answer. > >An older, but still usable, version of LVM was in 2.4.
