on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +0000, Ken Gilmour (ken@playersonly.com) wrote: > Replying to the message sent by Karsten M. Self ?on Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:51:35 -0800, received at 15:32:59 on 21/11/2003. Karsten M. Self wrote: > <snip > > > >Much of your objective could be attained via a reasonable partitioning > >scheme. ?The existing Debian Policy specification of what files go where > >already makes system backup and restoration trivial. > > > >Peace. > > I accomplished similar to this by simply using symlinks. For example, > all of my websites and logs were in /var/www/html and that partition > was getting full, so i added a new drive, gave it one large partition, > moved everything onto it set a symlink called html and removed the old > directory called html (not in that order) Why not simply mount that new drive as /var/www/html? Granted, if you wanted to provide additional storage from the new drive, you could have. But you can slice (partition) a disk as you want, and mount these to any arbitrary directory within the system directory tree. /, /tmp, /usr, /var, /home, etc., are just conventions. You could mount to /usr/share/doc if you wanted to (I'd call you crazy, but you could do it...). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/
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