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I am going for installing Gentoo for the second time. I read that multiple swap partitions can be created and their entries in /etc/fstab can be prioritised with pri mount option. Just wanted to ask whether that can be done with /home too. Like /dev/sda1 /home ext4 defaults,pri=1 0 2 and /dev/sda2 /home ext4 defaults,pri=2 0 2. Thanks!

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No not that way.

But there are other ways. Here are a few methods, they all do slightly different things.

  • Union file systems: create a layered file-system. A read-only as the base, then another overlay that is writable, and stored only the changes.
  • LVM, ZFS (and some other file systems): allow file-systems to span multiple partitions / disks.
  • Raid: allow file-systems to span multiple partitions / disks. (but for other reasons)
  • Symbolic linking: Allow you to make a file/sub-directory be in a different place.
  • Mount points in /home: Allow you to make a file/sub-directory be in a different place.
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