My partitions are filling up and I need to start juggling parts of my filesystem. Although some of one disk is under a volume manager (LVM via EVMS), I don't want to fiddle with it. Mostly this is because I don't want to extend the container to include a second disk, thereby doubling my chances of disaster and forcing me to keep the disks together.
So I think my two choices are using symbolic links are mounting parts of the filesystem at other points (I have a 2.4.21 kernel; mount --rbind looks like what I need). First, my impression is that mounting is preferable to using symlinks because find, tar, and others ordinarily do not follow the links. In some cases they have options to change that, but this screws up handling of my "real" symlinks and also invites me to forget the option and just miss part of my filesystem. Do people agree that mount --rbind is generally preferable? (I think this is a well known system administration issue, but googling didn't turn up much). Second, if I do that, is it possible to set up these mounts via fstab? How? And if it is possible, is it a good idea? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]