[gobolinux-users] Mounting /Programs on another partition

[Aitor Pérez Iturri]

El Sun, 4 Mar 2007 14:41:14 -0300
"Lucas C. Villa Real" <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> escribi__:

> The best approach is to use unionfs in this case, as some programs
> need to be in the root filesystem (BootScripts, Bash, CoreUtils, Glibc
> and possibly others). Just put the extra programs in a separate
> partition and then merge them with /Programs. Should work pretty fine.
> 

I was thinking on unionfs as a possible solution, but it has some
drawbacks; my original problem is that i'm getting out of space in hda1
(/ partition) so i have prepared another one.
With unionfs i will have hda1 mounted as root partition and hda2 (with
all Programs) merged with it. When i write a new program, it will come
to hda2, fine, but if i remove a file in /S/S (in hda1) for example and
after that i write a new one, it will come to hda2, if that file was a
file involved in boot process i could have problems when booting.

I'm not very used with unionfs and maybe this behaivor can be changed,
any with experience with unionfs could get me some tips on how to do
that.

On the other hand i was thinking also on lvm (i'm preparing a recipe for
lvm2), but this involved too much work, create new volumes and move all
my data.

Greetings.

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