I'll admit that my system setup is a bit unusual. A long time ago, in a place far away, hard drives were small, compared to today's standards. The usual unix practice of multiple seprate partitions was not feasable for me, but I did want to keep root on its own partition. So I compromised with a small / partition, with empty /home, /opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp directories. Their real equivalents are bind-mounted from a much larger partition. I just re-did my oldest machine. It has a primary partition 1, which covers the entire hard drive. The / partion on /dev/sda5 is approximately 500 megabytes (YES!). There's a 3.8 gigabyte swap partion /dev/sda6, and the rest of the drive is /dev/sda7. Here's the relevant portion of /etc/fstab...
/dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,async 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home ext3 noatime,async 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp /tmp auto bind 0 0 /dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0 ...and the output from "df"... Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 495944 49416 420928 11% / devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev tmpfs 310080 356 309724 1% /run shm 1550384 0 1550384 0% /dev/shm cgroup_root 10240 0 10240 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda7 476205120 292365556 159643008 65% /opt ...showing /dev/sda7 mounted on /opt !?!? mc (Midnight Commander) shows 152 of 454 gigabytes free on all of /home, /opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp, which is correct, since they're all really bindmounts from /dev/sda7. The / partition (/dev/sda5) has 411 of 484 megabytes free. The machine works OK, but the "df" output is a head-scratcher. I've re-booted a couple of times, with no change. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
