Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

[Thomas Dodd <ted@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:44:11AM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>  
> > I don't think so... If adding a new disk is not possible, use a file, 
> > the wonder of loop devices :) While people regularly use loop mounts for 
> > CD and floppy images or the initrd, they forget that almost any 
> > filesystem/mountpoint can be a loop device. I did this recently for  
> > /var/spool/up2date. The system is mainly a wi98 box, but it has a small 
> > linux install. So when I didn't have room for new updates, I tried a 
> > symlink. For various reasons it didn't work well, symlinking 
> > /var/spool/u2date to a FAT32 filesystem, so I created a new filesystem 
> > using the loop device and a file on the FAT32 filesystem. dd, losetup, 
> > and mke2fs where all it took.
> >    
> When you have free space on a filesystem with Linux semantics (e.g., /home),
> bind mounts make more sense:
>
>   mkdir /home/up2date
>   mount --bind /home/up2date /var/spool/up2date
>  
That one I didn't know :) Better than the problems of symlinks :)

Still, that doesn't work for FAT16/FAT32/vfat,  does it? While loop 
works there too.
Not sure if either work _well_ with NFS/SAMBA.

   -Thomas




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