Kenneth Porter wrote:
Thanks for your kind reply.
--On Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:27 PM -0500 Mike McCarty
<mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I guess I didn't make myself quite clear on this point. I want ONE (1)
ONE partition on the new disc. I don't want an explicit limit on either
/home or /tmp. I want them to share the disc. So a major part of my
question really revolves around whether I can make /tmp be a
soft link to /home/tmp when /home is a mount point for another
fs.
Not a soft link but a loopback mount point. In /etc/fstab the entry
would look like this:
/home/tmp /tmp none bind 0 0
(This presumes that /home has already been mounted earlier in the file.)
(Yes, that clearly would be necessary.)
I'm afraid that, while I've used *NIX like systems for, well,
since at least 1984, I'm new to administration. I installed
FC2 back late last October, and just now learned enough about
the conventions about where things are stored to do my first
backup (using a script I developed) which I have some confidence
that I could recover a working system from, should the need
arise.
So, though I'm familiar with the *term* "loopback", and I've mounted
ISO images using "the loopback device", I really am pretty much
clueless about what the term "loopback" refers to. I'm familiar with
both hard and soft links, however.
Would you mind specifying what the distinction between
using a soft link and using a loopback mount would be?
And why one would prefer the latter to the former?
Mike
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