On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt: > mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower1:/lower2:/lower3 /merged > > How can I specify that I want e.g. lower2 to be mounted at merged/home? > > If all lower* layers can only be mounted at /merged, then I don't see any > way at all that overlayfs would allow me to combine e.g. > Partition MountDir MergedDir > ------------------------------ > /dev/sda1 /root-fs /merged > /dev/sda2 /home-fs /merged/home > > I even tried to create a fake directory structure like this: > /dev/sda2 /fakedir/home /merged > ...so that I would mount /dev/sda2 to /fakedir/home, and then try to use > lower2=/fakedir, but then I got a different issue, that overlayfs doesn't > include submounts, so sda2 wasn't visible at all then. > > So I was unable to combine the root and home partitions to the correct paths > using overlayfs (I'm planning to use a tmpfs as the upper dir later on). > > Any help? Thank you! Create two overlays: one for root and one for home (which includes the additional home-fs). Does that work for you? Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
