[02:22] <MutantTurkey> new guitar :) :)
[04:01] <ChinnoDog> Is there a way for me to put multiple mount points on a single file system?
[04:02] <ChinnoDog> For example, suppose I wanted my /home on a file system but I wanted to to also contain /storage
[04:02] <ChinnoDog> s/to to/it to
[04:03] <ChinnoDog> I don't want to create a bazillion partitions, so i would rather they share the same storage pool
[04:04] <waltman> Of course.  You can mount things under /mnt, can't you?
[04:05] <waltman> what do you mean you want /home to contain /storage?
[04:07] <ChinnoDog> I mean that I want /home and /storage to share the same hard disk space, e.g. a 100gb xfs paritition
[04:07] <ChinnoDog> I do not want to create to 50gb partitions because I have no idea what the distribution will be
[04:07] <ChinnoDog> s/to/two
[04:07] <ChinnoDog> Must be getting late. :-p
[04:08] <waltman> You could symlink /storage to /home/storage
[04:08] <ChinnoDog> symlink from where?
[04:09] <ChinnoDog> If I were to do that then wouldn't it mean that /storage is in another partition?
[04:09] <waltman> mkdir /home/storage; cd /; ln -s /home/storage
[04:10] <waltman> no, just the symlink is on the other partition
[04:10] <waltman> A hardlink wouldn't work, but a symlink is just a pointer.
[04:11] <waltman> alternatively you could mount /storage, make /storage/home and symlink that to /home
[04:12] <ChinnoDog> hmm.  So, then I would mount my data partition as /storage and symlink /home on root to /storage/home, and this would not break anything?
[04:12] <waltman> nope
[04:14] <ChinnoDog> There are tons of emergency vehicles outside. I can't figure out what is going on
[04:15] <waltman> where are you?
[04:15] <PennBot> It has been said that you are lucky I like you, waltman
[04:15] <ChinnoDog> They passed by a few minutes ago but they can't be far away. I thought they were at the high school behind the apartment but now I think they sound too far away to be there
[04:15] <ChinnoDog> Denver, PA
[04:16] <ChinnoDog> Now I can't hear them. They either moved away quickly or turned off their sirents.
[04:16] <ChinnoDog> sirens
[04:18] <waltman> Huh.  I'd expect Denver to be pretty quiet.
[04:18] <waltman> That's out by Adamstown, isn't it?
[04:18] <ChinnoDog> yup
[04:19] <ChinnoDog> idk. I'll probably find some news on it tomorrow.
[04:20] <ChinnoDog> waltman: ok, so, if /home or /storage is a symlink, it will work. Well, maybe there is one more complication. I want /home encrypted...
[04:22] <ChinnoDog> I don't want to encrypt /storage though. It is going to have.. well, random crap in it including ISO images, music, stuff that I don't care if people rip off
[04:22] <waltman> Yes, that might be a problem.  I thought you had to encrypt the entire partition.
[04:23] <waltman> I don't really know anything about encrypted filesystems.
[04:24] <waltman> But it seems like it would be awfully difficult to do that AND not have to decide on the sizes up front.
[04:24] <ChinnoDog> hmm
[04:24] <ChinnoDog> perhaps some other arrangement is preferable
[04:25] <ChinnoDog> Maybe I can estimate my /home minus all of music and pics and stuff
[04:25] <ChinnoDog> Then, I can symlink those folders to /storage
[04:26] <waltman> You realize, of course, that disk space is dirt cheap.  I just picked up a 1 TB drive at Microcenter last week for $50.
[04:27] <ChinnoDog> This is my work laptop. I get 500gb. And, judging by how hard it was to get this two year old laptop, I will be stuck with that for the next 3 years at least.
[04:27] <ChinnoDog> So, I am going to make the most of it!
[04:27] <waltman> nod
[04:28] <ChinnoDog> I'm stealing disk space and memory for ubuntu and virtualizing Server 08. In exchange, I am going to use an SSD as a Readyboost style disk cache.
[04:35] <ChinnoDog> I see that home directory encryption occurs per user
[04:36] <ChinnoDog> Therefore, I can mount /home on its own partition and create a storage directory there that would not be encrypted, but my user profile will be encrypted
[04:38] <waltman> what is a "user profile"?
[04:51] <ChinnoDog> sorry, too many years as a Windows sys admin. :-)
[04:51] <ChinnoDog> user profile == /home/chinnodog
[17:36] <qkall> anyone know how to submit music to the ubuntu one music store?
[17:37] <qkall> i've googled for awhile and i can't seem to even get close to figuring it out.
[17:39] <rmg51> I never tried
[17:41] <rmg51> I've never even used Ubuntu One
[19:20] <ChinnoDog> I don't get this. Why is it that I dd some zeros into a 1gb file in a compressed btrfs volume that it takes up 1gb? No compression appears to be happening. Yet, the file system is obviously compressed since it occupies more space with du than in shown with df.
[19:22] <rmg51> your question is unanswerable, please ask an answerable question :-/
[19:23] <ChinnoDog> :-\
[19:24] <ChinnoDog> I want to preallocate a KVM disk image on this volume with compression enabled
[19:24] <ChinnoDog> I don't think I am doing anything wrong. Is this btrfs being half baked?
[19:26]  * ChinnoDog is annoyed
[19:26] <rmg51> see above response
[19:27] <ChinnoDog> It /is/ answerable. dd must be using some write method that btrfs can't or won't compress
[19:28] <ChinnoDog> clearly placing the VM images on btrfs is a bad idea
[19:29] <rmg51> so is asking me ;-)
[19:33] <ChinnoDog> on btrfs is a pretty good way to squash a file system in a small space though
[19:33] <ChinnoDog> that is "/ on btrfs"..