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02-05-2014 07:49 PM |
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Originally Posted by Kustom42
(Post 5112383)
I am not guilty of making assumptions, I provided an option and told you to elaborate more on what is being asked. I actually talked about what LVM was in my post and this continuance of flaming each other on the boards needs to cease right now. Everyone here is trying to show how big their e-peen is and its ricidulous we are here to help the OP focus on that.
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Pardon me? I'm not flaming, and I'm not waving an e-peen. I merely put forward a suggestion; OP can take it or leave it.
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Originally Posted by Kustom42
(Post 5112383)
And yes you do need to provide details in your response not just I'm smart and know what I'm doing and use this.
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Again: pardon? I never stated anything along those lines, nor intended to imply it.
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Originally Posted by Kustom42
(Post 5112383)
I explained possible impilications and provided a link to a tutorial with examples.
You posted a link to a FOSS project that is used on less distros than I can count on both hands out of the box.
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Union mounts are very common in LiveCD/DVD/USB environments, and UnionFS and aufs are the two most prevalent in-kernel implementations of the concept for Linux.
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Originally Posted by Kustom42
(Post 5112383)
Explain this to the OP and say here is an option, its used on these and heres its benefits. Let them figure out if its right for them or not.
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Very well.
A union mount allows multiple filesystems to be mounted simultaneously; the end result looks like a single filesystem, with a single mountpoint. This concept is commonly used in Unix-like operating systems; Plan 9 - Bell Labs' successor to Unix - makes extensive use of such filesystem combination, and is an awesome example of union mounts done right. There are multiple methods of implementing union mounts in Linux, two of them being UnionFS and aufs.
In the case of UnionFS, then - so long as your kernel supports it - you can easily make two filesystems accessible with one mountpoint:
Code:
mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/mnt/user-partition-1:/mnt/user-partition-2 none /home
For aufs:
Code:
mount -t aufs -o br=/mnt/user-partition-1:/mnt/user-partition-2 none /home
Both of the above assume that you've already established mountpoints for your two partitions that need to be mounted as /home.
There's also unionfs-fuse if your kernel doesn't include UnionFS or aufs and you don't feel like compiling kernel modules. That tool is also quite simple:
Code:
unionfs-fuse /mnt/user-partition-1:/mnt/user-partition-2 /home
I'm not sure about the availability of any of these in Slackware, though I do know that Slax (which is based on Slackware) previously used UnionFS and now uses aufs as of version 6. Debian has both unionfs-fuse and aufs.
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Originally Posted by Kustom42
(Post 5112383)
Feel free to disagree with any of the above with exception of ceasing the flaming, we are violating the forum rules here and need to focus on working together to build a strong community and keep people coming back. Remember we are all here because we <3 Linux
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Eeyup.
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