Is it safe to use a bind mount to relocate /var/snap/?

[thekswenson]

I’m trying to build a snap with a large number of dependencies. After a few iterations, without fail, I end up filling up by root directory due to HUGE disk usage in the /var/snap/multipass/ directory. Before I know it, my machine is useless.

Would it be safe for me to use a bind mount for /var/snap/ in the way that I did for /var/lib/snapd/ described here:

Moved /var/lib/snapd into /home/snapd and symlicked back. Snaps fail to start

Because in the partition my /var had been mounted, was rather small space I found out that /var/lib/snapd takes a huge chunk of space in it. Therefore, I moved it into /home/snapd via rsync and symlinked it back: sudo service snapd stop sudo rsync -ravp /var/lib/snapd /home/snapd sudo chmod --reference=/var/lib/snapd /home/snapd sudo ln -s /home/snapd /var/lib/snapd But that causes my snapd daemon to have the following issues: sudo systemctl status snapd ● snapd.service - Snappy daemon Lo…

[ijohnson]

I don’t know of a reason why it wouldn’t work, but please reach out if you have problems with it, we’d be interested to know what went wrong