[ALUG] mount conundrum

[Yvonne Everett]

If it was me, I'd use symbolic links, otherwise you could be giving
yourself a headache re-organising the system disk.  Or you could edit
the /etc/passwd file and change the home directories for users in
there to the new location?!

Rgds

On 03/11/2007, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> Maybe I've got too involved in this and need to leave it for a while
> but I'll ask anyway.....
>
> A per the lvm thread I now have a whole new disk that has been lvm'ed.
> I think I probably want to move all my home directories and other such
> bits and pieces onto it.  I.e. I will have one 'system' disk which has
> all the OS stuff on it and one 'data' disk which has home directories
> and anything else which is bascially data rather than programs (such
> as pictures, vmware guest images, etc.).
>
> So, how do I do it?
>
> If I create a /home directory on my root partition and then mount the
> new logical volume on /home it means that *everything* I create on
> that logical volume will appear as /home/<something>.  That maybe
> alright for actual /home directories but doesn't make much sense for
> other stuff.
>
> Should I:-
>
>     Split the new disk into more than one Logical Volume?
>
>     Use lots of symbolic links?
>
>     Stop drinking so much wine?
>
> I'm stopping now, doing things as root when I'm even slightly
> inebriated is probably not a good idea.   :-)
>
> --
> Chris Green
>
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