Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:04:00PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr, > e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living somewhere else, on > different partition and different filesystem. Let's say something mounted > on /mnt/Pe

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:00:08 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 15:15, Canek Peláez Valdés > wrote: > > > > You are; but in an incredible complicated and convulted way. > > > > If I'm understanding you, you want: > > > > fstab: > > /dev/XX   /mnt/p1   ... > > /dev/YY   /mnt/p2  

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:05:59 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Mar 13, 2012 2:00 PM, "Alan McKinnon" > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:04:00 +0700 > > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories > > > under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/s

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Mar 13, 2012 2:42 PM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 15:15, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> > >> You are; but in an incredible complicated and convulted way. > >> > >> If I'm understanding you, you want: > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 15:15, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >> You are; but in an incredible complicated and convulted way. >> >> If I'm understanding you, you want: >> >> fstab: >> /dev/XX   /mnt/p1   ... >> /dev/YY   /mnt/p2   ... >> >> an

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 15:15, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > You are; but in an incredible complicated and convulted way. > > If I'm understanding you, you want: > > fstab: > /dev/XX   /mnt/p1   ... > /dev/YY   /mnt/p2   ... > > and then > > /usr/portage -> /mnt/p1 > /usr/src -> /mnt/p2 > > (or u

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Philipp Riegger
On 13.03.2012 09:15, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: If I'm understanding you, you want: fstab: /dev/XX /mnt/p1 ... /dev/YY /mnt/p2 ... and then /usr/portage -> /mnt/p1 /usr/src -> /mnt/p2 (or using bindmounting, whatever). This makes no sense at all (at least not to me), when you can s

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2012 2:00 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: >> >> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:04:00 +0700 >> Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> > I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories >> > under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source act

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 13, 2012 2:00 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:04:00 +0700 > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories > > under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living > > somewhere else, on different partition and diff

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:04:00 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories > under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living > somewhere else, on different partition and different filesystem. > Let's say something mounted on /mnt/Persis

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:11, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr, >>> e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actual

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:11, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr, >> e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living somewhere else, on >> different partition and diff

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr, > e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living somewhere else, on > different partition and different filesystem. Let's say something mounted on > /mnt/Persiste

[gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living somewhere else, on different partition and different filesystem. Let's say something mounted on /mnt/Persistent. My question: should I use bindmount or symlinks to do that