G'day, On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:56:16PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:44 +1100, Nick Urbanik wrote: > > > I have a 512 gigabyte 3ware raid partition, and am using it for many > > different purposes, and had used symlinks to access it. I'm changing > > it to mount as you sensibly suggest. > > You could use LVM to pool your local disk containing / and the raid > partition containing /opt; this makes the fact that the files are on > different stores transparent to applications and removes the need for > symlinks or bind mounts, and in general is a lot nicer to manage. Yes, I used LVM for many years, but found that the performance of the virtual disks was quite a lot lower than the physical ones (using hdparm -t and other measures). That has probably changed by now; I was using LVM 1. > > That's a wonderful idea! The mount man page indicates that I can use > > > > mount --move /opt/nicku /home/nicku > > Ah, it's unclear to me exactly what --move is supposed to do; the > example doesn't work for me. No, it didn't work for me either. I used bind mounts, which do the job just nicely. -- Nick Urbanik RHCE http://nicku.org nicku(at)nicku.org Proud ex-member of Dept. of Information & Communications Technology in Hong Kong IVE (Tsing Yi), Home of Visual Paradigm: Jolt Productivity Award winner, programmed by ICT's own graduates! GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24
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