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mojomagic

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Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 26

[Solved] Potential smart question on partitioning.

Hi.

Recently, namely on the 1st of April I became aware that my processor can run at 64bit.
which means I am considering re-installing my system (well Arch64) and using ext4 partitions (which could be irrelevant).

So, I thought it might be smart to have the /tmp and the /var folders on the same dedicated partition. Because obviously it's stupid for them to be together with the rest of the stuff on / and I find it wasteful to have each of them on an individual partition (issues... laptop). Still, I don't know how to do this, I could have missed it at the tutorials - if so, I apologize and kindly ask for the link. But would you tell if it's possible and if so how it's done?

PS.: Opinions on the smartness of the idea are welcome as well.

Last edited by mojomagic (2009-05-06 17:17:07)

sisco311

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From: Romania

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 112

Re: [Solved] Potential smart question on partitioning.

mount the partition and bind the dirs:

/dev/sdaX /mnt/balabla ext4 defaults 0 2 
/mnt/balbala/tmp /tmp none defaults,bind 0 0
/mnt/balbala/var /var none defaults,bind 0 0

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mojomagic

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Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 26

Re: [Solved] Potential smart question on partitioning.

Thanks.