Re: adding a 386 chroot in /home

[Alan Woodland <woodalan@woodland.shacknet.nu>]

It migh in practice work except for anything which tries to recurse 
through your directory structure which might well "get stuck". Since its 
going to be on the same FS though it might be easier than run the risk 
of things doing this to just make a hard link for the directories in 
/home that you want to be accesible in the chroot  (ie ln /home/username 
/home/sid-ia32/home/username) which will work.

Alan

Alexandru Cabuz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there any particular reason why in the AMD64 Debian howto the i386
> chroot is setup in /var/chroot/sid-ia32 or can it be anywhere?
>
> I am asking because on my system /var is its own partition, and is not
> big enough to house a i386 system. Same thing for the /, /tmp and /usr
> filesystems. My big partition is the /home partition.
>
> Would there be any problem putting my chroot in /home/sid-ia32?
> Because then, in the chroot, I would make /home point to /home in the
> amd64 system, which would contain the chroot, so the filesystem would
> be like the snake swallowing its own tail. Would it not freak out, or
> in any case, protest at this state of affairs (the filesystem I mean)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alex.
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