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tazboy78

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Registered: 2009-03-30

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Partition mounting: home and srv same partition?

Currently sda1 is mounted to root. Besides the swap my only other partition is sda2, and is mounted to /home.

The primary use for this machine is a server. It is the samba file server for the network, and is hosting a few websites with apache. As such /srv has been growing. The sda2 partition is three times bigger than sda1. I want both /srv and /home to be on the larger partition to have plenty of room to grow. Is there any way to put both /home and /srv on sda2? How would the fstab look for that?

Matthew
Brampton ON

perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: Partition mounting: home and srv same partition?

First you have to move 'srv' from its present position

mv /srv /home; mkdir /srv; chmod a+rwx /srv

Then I would suggest that you use /etc/rc.local to 'bind' the /home/srv directory

mount --bind /home/srv /srv

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,223

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Re: Partition mounting: home and srv same partition?

Or just symlink it

mv /srv /home/
ln -s /home/srv /srv

You could also create a disk image in home and mount that as srv, although this wouldn't be very efficient as far as performance goes

dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/srv.img bs=102400 count=<size of srv you want in mb>
mkfs -t <filesystem type> /home/srv.img
mount -o loop /home/srv.img /mnt/new-srv
mkdir /mnt/new-srv/
mv /srv/* /mnt/new-srv/
umount /mnt/new-srv
umount /srv
mount /home/srv.img /srv

It goes a little something like that

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