Re: [Sheflug] Partitioning.

[zzzz <nospam [at] zapata.freeserve.co.uk>]

Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  I`m in the process of mashing all my stuff into tarballs, and backing
> everything up.

>  How should I set all this up?

The following can be considered a gross hack, or super-elegant:

Mount partitions designated for data as /.partitionname.

/dev/hdb1 mounted on /.b1
/dev/hdb2 mounted on /.b2
etc.

and then use symlinks. So my machine had

/home/archive/mp3 -> /.b1/mp3
/usr/local/src -> /.b1/source
/home/jules/vmware -> /.b2/vmware
etc.

It beats mounting partitions directly on directories, because you can
move
and shuffle directories around without editing fstab.

I personally wouldn't do this for partitions like /usr, but you _can_ do
it if you want.

Anyway, If you think it's ugly, please don't do it this way, because you
might get annoyed/confused using cd ../../blah and find out it doesn't
work anymore :-)

Jules
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