On Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:45:12 PM David Wright wrote:
> I agree with all that, but I avoid making symlinks. If I do a
> recursive search of my home directory, there's really no point
> in trawling through 300GB of photographs, so they're all under
> /home/photos. I put them under /home
On Sat 12 Nov 2016 at 19:15:29 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote:
> Le duodi 22 brumaire, an CCXXV, Robert Menes a écrit :
> > My question is this: which is the better path to take? Symlinking or hard
> > linking another drive to ~/Music and ~/Videos? I understand that I
> > will need to edit
On 11/12/2016 10:09 AM, Robert Menes wrote:
> My current desktop setup currently has a Debian installation on a 120GB
> SSD, which
> is mounted with both the EFI system partition and as / for my rig. I have a
> 3TB HDD
> which I had mounted as /home during install.
>
> As my desktop case still
On 11/12/2016 08:30 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le duodi 22 brumaire, an CCXXV, Lars Nood�n a �crit�:
>> What are the disadvantages of bind mounts?
>
> They require root privileges for any change.
>
> They are also more expensive than any individual symlink, but it does
> not matter much if
Le duodi 22 brumaire, an CCXXV, Lars Noodén a écrit :
> What are the disadvantages of bind mounts?
They require root privileges for any change.
They are also more expensive than any individual symlink, but it does
not matter much if there are only a few.
But I can reverse the question: what
On 11/12/2016 08:15 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
[snip]
> You could use bind mounts, but I really do not recommend it.
[snip]
What are the disadvantages of bind mounts?
Regards,
Lars
On 11/12/2016 08:09 PM, Robert Menes wrote:
[snip]
> My question is this: which is the better path to take? Symlinking or hard
> linking another
> drive to ~/Music and ~/Videos?
[snip]
Directories can only be symlinked. But you might be interested in mount
instead, especially the --bind option.
Le duodi 22 brumaire, an CCXXV, Robert Menes a écrit :
> My question is this: which is the better path to take? Symlinking or hard
> linking another drive to ~/Music and ~/Videos? I understand that I
> will need to edit /etc/fstab and all; that's fine. Just curious as to
> whether symlinks or hard
Hello everyone,
My current desktop setup currently has a Debian installation on a 120GB
SSD, which
is mounted with both the EFI system partition and as / for my rig. I have a
3TB HDD
which I had mounted as /home during install.
As my desktop case still has enough space in it, I was contemplating
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