Alan Chandler wrote: > On 30/06/10 09:29, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of >> putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two >> partitions, for example. >> > > > You are still talking backwards > > You put the partition (/dev/sdXY) on /var not the other way round. > You DON'T put /var on /dev/sdXY / > > If you imagine there is a conceptual drawing of the tree starting at / > and including all the major mount points - with the non standard mount > points being creatable manually, and somewhere below a list of > unallocated partitions. > > Then you could drag any partition (from the unallocated list or from > another mount point) and drop it on mount point you wanted. If that > mount point already had a partition at that point it would warn you, > and if you said continue would move the old partition back into the > unallocated list. If you said don't continue it would leave the old > one where it was and the new one would return from whence it came. That's the way it should be done. But it isn't. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. (Jacques Bossuet)
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