Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

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On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 08:29 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:18:03 +0100
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > PS Suggestions on how to move /var without all this jiggery-pokery are
> > also welcome.
> 
> What you want is a "bind" mount. Something like this:
> 
> /zooty/home             /home               none    rw,bind          0 0
> 
> I use this to put /home on a bigger disk than the OS was installed on
> (and recover /home from previous installs since /zooty/home hangs around).

That "works" (i.e. doesn't give an error and does mount the directory)
...

> Of course, I have no idea if something during boot might want
> /var prior to even looking at the fstab, so this might not work.

... however the system refuses to boot (SDDM throws an error, then
system reboots). Something doesn't like /var being moved around after
starting, or doesn't like bind mounts for some reason.

poc
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