Bug#485790: generate separate /boot as workaround for buggy LBA48 ?
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:52:32PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> The disadvantage of that (assuming you want to avoid LVM) is that for a
> really small / you'll need at least separate /var, /usr, /tmp, /srv
> and /home partitions and then you have the question what the best
> relative sizes are for that particular user.
> Here's a wild idea that could be used to work around that.
> Create two partitions: / and a partition e.g. "/media/multifs".
> And then bind mount all other partitions inside the second one.
> /etc/fstab would look something like this:
> <snip>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hda3 /media/multifs ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
> /media/multifs/home /home ext3 bind 0 0
> /media/multifs/srv /srv ext3 bind 0 0
> /media/multifs/usr /usr ext3 bind 0 0
> /media/multifs/var /var ext3 bind 0 0
> /media/multifs/tmp /tmp ext3 bind 0 0
> </snip>
> I've tested this and it actually seems to work. If people like this idea,
> all we'd need is to add support for it in partman :-)
> One added advantage would be short fsck times for /.
I've done this sort of thing before, in the distant past; I've moved away
from it because I couldn't find any real advantages to not just using a
single large root partition plus a small /boot.
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