https://www.michelebologna.net/tags/bind-mount/Recent content in Bind-Mount on Michele BolognaHugoenTue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://www.michelebologna.net/2018/linux-using-bind-mount-to-move-a-subset-of-root-subdirectories-to-another-partion-or-disk/Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://www.michelebologna.net/2018/linux-using-bind-mount-to-move-a-subset-of-root-subdirectories-to-another-partion-or-disk/<p>I had a Linux box with two disks:</p> <ul> <li><code>/dev/sda</code>: fast SSD, ~200 GB; operating system installed here</li> <li><code>/dev/sdb</code>: large HDD, ~4 TB; empty</li> </ul> <p>The obvious option would be to create a mount point like <code>/storage</code> and mount <code>/dev/sdb</code> there. But after reading about <a href="https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/ch03s02.en.html#id-1.4.3.2" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intelligent partitioning</a> and the <a href="https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/apcs03.html.en" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommended Debian partitioning scheme</a>, I wanted to move <code>/var</code>, <code>/home</code>, and <code>/tmp</code> to the big disk, not as three separate partitions, but all living together in one partition on <code>/dev/sdb</code>.</p>