[PLUG] File system space troubles (SOLVED)

Paul Munday paulm at freegeek.org
Fri Jul 5 19:00:33 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 11:57 -0700, wes wrote:
> 
> > Dumb question time. I don't suppose there's a way to symlink those
> dirs to
> > a space in the /home dir to avoid this problem in the future is
> there?
> >
> 
> Yes, you can do this. Simply mv /var /home/var and then ln
> -s /home/var
> /var, and reboot. 


Bind mounts are useful in this situation, to avoid having symlinks
around 
(so things show up with their proper path).
  
Add this to /etc/fstab

 /home/var         /var        bind        defaults,bind    0 0

Then var will appear to be a proper directory in / (just as if it was on
its own partition) 
even though its actually elsewhere.

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