On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 08:26 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > On 8/16/19 6:09 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 08:29 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:18:03 +0100 > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > PS Suggestions on how to move /var without all this jiggery-pokery are > > > > also welcome. > > > > > > What you want is a "bind" mount. Something like this: > > > > > > /zooty/home /home none rw,bind 0 0 > > > > > > I use this to put /home on a bigger disk than the OS was installed on > > > (and recover /home from previous installs since /zooty/home hangs around). > > > > That "works" (i.e. doesn't give an error and does mount the directory) > > ... > > > > > Of course, I have no idea if something during boot might want > > > /var prior to even looking at the fstab, so this might not work. > > > > ... however the system refuses to boot (SDDM throws an error, then > > system reboots). Something doesn't like /var being moved around after > > starting, or doesn't like bind mounts for some reason. > > My strong hunch is that boot logging gets clobbered.
Possibly, though it's not clear why (it complains about not being able to write to a log file under /var/log, but /var/log exists). Anyway, it's a secondary consideration and will presumably disappear once I fix the main issue. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
