From:    Steve Litt <slitt@???>

Date:    Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:20:36 -0500

> For the same reason not to have more than one partition per disk: It
> does nothing for you. If you need to grab space off other disks for a
> given (former) mountpoint, a bind mount to a directory on the othe disk
> does just fine.

At an abstract level, makes sense.

I don't have the details. What is needed to make it work?

Install packages allowing LVM?

Use overlayfs? An alternative to LVM?

What other ingredients?

> This way all your directories are like "rubber rooms" that expand
> and contract as needed, and you only need to check each hard disk
> with df -h.

Good but how is a runaway process prevented from flooding storage?

Thx,                           ... P.

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