Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:52:23 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > And an extended partition is a special type of primary partition. > > > > Or you can avoid all this legacy idiocy and confusion by using GPT, > > which lets you have a sensible number of partitions without fragile > > kludges.

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:27:18 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > Hm, I don't consider extended partitions as primary ones but as > > extended ones. When I need more than four partitions, I create three > > primary ones, an extended one and logical ones within the extended > > one. Why would

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-28 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:13:29AM +0100, lee wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: > > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote > > > >> 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 > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-28 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:35:34PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:27:18 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > OK, Primary and/or Extended partitions are numbered 1-to-4. Logical > > partitions within extended partitions are numbered 5 and up. > > And an extended

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-27 Thread lee
waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote > >> 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. > > Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-26 Thread lee
Mark David Dumlao writes: > On Nov 26, 2015 08:30, "lee" wrote: >> waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: >> > compromised with a small / partition, with empty /home, /opt, /var, >> > /usr, and /tmp directories. Their real equivalents are bind-mounted >> > from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-26 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, wrote: > > I'll admit that my system setup is a bit unusual. A long time ago, in > a place far away, hard drives were small, compared to today's standards. > The usual unix practice of multiple seprate partitions was not feasable > for me,

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 5:57 AM, lee wrote: > Mark David Dumlao writes: >> wrt symlinks, some legacy tools, and regular unix tools have a completely >> different behavior when traversing symlinks as opposed to regular >> directories, which bindmounts

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-26 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote > 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. Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4 and logical partitions are numbered 5 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 06:27:39 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > 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. > > Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4 and logical

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 26 November 2015 06:27:39 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote > > > 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. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Jc García wrote: > 2015-11-25 16:10 GMT-06:00 : > >> /dev/sda7. Here's the relevant portion of /etc/fstab... > ... > >> /home/bindmounts/opt/optauto bind 0 0 > > Why not use regular

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-25 Thread Jc García
2015-11-25 16:10 GMT-06:00 : > /dev/sda7. Here's the relevant portion of /etc/fstab... ... > /home/bindmounts/opt/optauto bind 0 0 Why not use regular partiontions instand of bindmounts, you are just doing weird stuff seems to me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-25 Thread lee
waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: > I'll admit that my system setup is a bit unusual. A long time ago, in > a place far away, hard drives were small, compared to today's standards. > The usual unix practice of multiple seprate partitions was not feasable > for me, but I did want to keep root on

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-25 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Nov 26, 2015 08:30, "lee" wrote: > waltd...@waltdnes.org 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

[gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-25 Thread waltdnes
I'll admit that my system setup is a bit unusual. A long time ago, in a place far away, hard drives were small, compared to today's standards. The usual unix practice of multiple seprate partitions was not feasable for me, but I did want to keep root on its own partition. So I compromised with