[PLUG] File system space troubles (SOLVED) (Paul Munday)

Brian Martin plugng3 at martinconsulting.com
Sat Jul 6 20:11:09 UTC 2013


> 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.
>

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of 
indirection" -- David Wheeler.

--------------------
Brian P. Martin, Chief Consultant
Martin Consulting Services, Inc.
Phone: 503-617-4500
E-mail: Brian at MartinConsulting.com




More information about the PLUG mailing list