On 12/17/2017 08:41 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 08:31:05 -0500 Temlakos wrote:
And when I do that, any folder that I create on the "data disk," the system will find by starting from /home/[user-ident].
You might want to consider a "bind" mount for /home instead of lots of symlinks for each home directory. I have this in my fstab:
/zooty/home /home none rw,bind 0 0 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
I just looked up bind mounts. The way they explained it at:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198590/what-is-a-bind-mount
bind mounts are copies. I don't want a copy; I just want user data to occupy a second, much larger disk. Fred and Stan seem to be saying some things ought to reside on a separate disk, but some things--like some (but not all) configuration files, plus a few artifacts that the system throws in from time to time--ought to stay on the system drive, so that a clean install will wipe them out, leaving usable user data untouched and unharmed.
Unless I'm missing something, if I set up a bind mount, I effectively limit myself to the unused capacity of the smaller system drive and cannot effectively use all the capacity of the larger "user data drive."
Temlakos