Re: tlug: Moving directories to a different disk

[Felix Morley Finch <felix@example.com>]

>>In article <Pine.LNX.3.96LJ1.1b7.980720035615.9054E-100000@example.com>, Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> writes:

> For example, I'd like to put /home and /var on /dev/sbd1. If I
> just want to move /home, this is easy, since I just need to make a mount
> point called /home for /dev/sbd1.  But I'm uncertain of how to go about
> getting /var and /home both over there?  Or is it only possible to have
> them both on one partition if they are directly under the / directory?

On /dev/sbd1, make two partitions, one for /home and one for /var.
Then mount each separately.

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