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From: "Mark Ferlatte" <ferlatte@cryptio.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [debian-user] install with 3 partitions
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:17:29PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote:
> > Um... You can't mount /home, /tmp, /usr, and /var on hda5. You can only
> > mount a partition at one place at a time.
>
> Well, you sort of can:
>
> telinit 1 (ie, go to single user mode)
> mkdir /storage
> mount /dev/hda5 /storage
> mkdir /storage/home /storage/usr /storage/var /storage/tmp
> cp -a /home /storage/home
> cp -a /var /storage/var
> cp -a /usr /storage/usr
> cp -a /tmp /storage/tmp
> rm -rf /tmp /usr /home /var
> cd /
> ln -s ./storage/var var
> ln -s ./storage/usr usr
> ln -s ./storage/home home
> ln -s ./storage/tmp tmp
>
> This makes home var usr and tmp share one big partition, that you access
> via symlinks as normal.
>
> > ...I'm not sure you want to mount /tmp seperately. To be on the safe
> > side... might want to leave that where it is.
>
> Mounting /tmp as it's own partition is a really good idea; it prevents
> out of control programs and users from using /tmp to fill up your system
> disks. In kernel 2.4.x, you can even mount tmpfs there, and take
> advantage of tmp files rarely getting written to disk.
>
> M
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