Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan E. Davis wrote: Norberto and Josh: Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in mind which partitions belong

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:10:37PM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote Norberto and Josh: Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have

[gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread b.n.
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 3. August 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting. Thank you. That was it. IN answer to another query, as to why not symlink, I cannot point to a particular behavior, but I have found that symlinks do not behave in

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Josh Cepek
Alan E. Davis wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Josh Cepek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Personally I'd suggest using LVM for this ++ 1) ++ 2) ++ 3) You can easily migrate between hard drives while the system is online by moving LV's from one Physical Volume (PV) (eg: a hard disk) to another. --!! Have you ever tried that? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Norberto and Josh: Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in mind which partitions belong to what. Also my main