On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:44:11AM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote: > I don't think so... If adding a new disk is not possible, use a file, > the wonder of loop devices :) While people regularly use loop mounts for > CD and floppy images or the initrd, they forget that almost any > filesystem/mountpoint can be a loop device. I did this recently for > /var/spool/up2date. The system is mainly a wi98 box, but it has a small > linux install. So when I didn't have room for new updates, I tried a > symlink. For various reasons it didn't work well, symlinking > /var/spool/u2date to a FAT32 filesystem, so I created a new filesystem > using the loop device and a file on the FAT32 filesystem. dd, losetup, > and mke2fs where all it took. When you have free space on a filesystem with Linux semantics (e.g., /home), bind mounts make more sense: mkdir /home/up2date mount --bind /home/up2date /var/spool/up2date or in /etc/fstab: /home/up2date /var/spool/up2date none bind 0 0 after /home is mounted, of course. :-) See mount(8). Regards, Bill Rugolsky _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
