On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 08:26 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
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.
Possibly, though it's not clear why (it complains about not being able to write to a log file under /var/log, but /var/log exists). Anyway, it's a secondary consideration and will presumably disappear once I fix the main issue.
poc