On 8/16/19 6:09 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 08:29 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:18:03 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
PS Suggestions on how to move /var without all this jiggery-pokery are also welcome.
What you want is a "bind" mount. Something like this:
/zooty/home /home none rw,bind 0 0
I use this to put /home on a bigger disk than the OS was installed on (and recover /home from previous installs since /zooty/home hangs around).
That "works" (i.e. doesn't give an error and does mount the directory) ...
Of course, I have no idea if something during boot might want /var prior to even looking at the fstab, so this might not work.
... however the system refuses to boot (SDDM throws an error, then system reboots). Something doesn't like /var being moved around after starting, or doesn't like bind mounts for some reason.
My strong hunch is that boot logging gets clobbered.
:m