On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Kapil Khanna wrote: > I have always wondered if i can mount this additional windows file > system on / (root) rather than a sub directory of /. That way i can add
No. You can't mount over the root of the filesystem. > Any ideas on how i can get around this problem? I have thought about You might be able to mount /usr over samba or NFS if you don't plan to ever use the laptop outside of your local area network. This isn't very practical for portability, but it will cut your disk usage considerably (under 800MB--most of that in /var). On the other hand, if you want a portable solution, why not strip down your Linux installation to the bare minimum needed to run X, VNC, and SSH, and then connect to a more full-featured machine elsewhere? You can do a basic install in less than 1GB of space. You could probably even squeeze that down to around 600MB, even with all the cruft that Red Hat tosses in by default. You might also consider a different distro like ZipSlack (100MB) or the Slackware Live Filesystem CD (zero disk space usage) and just use your local hard drive for file storage. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list