In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a solution to your problem, If your partition is, > say. /disk1; create /disk1/doc and symlink that to /usr/doc and > things shall be fine.
Hmm. That didn't quite work when I tried it a few days ago. There are symlinks like this one: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 30 12:55 /usr/doc/strn/help -> ../../lib/strn/help If /usr/doc -> /disk1/doc, /usr/doc/strn/help will resolve to /disk1/doc/lib/strn/help My setup is like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 30 12:57 /usr/doc -> /usr-overflow/doc /usr-overflow: total 20 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Sep 13 23:22 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Sep 11 20:26 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 30 12:58 X11R6 -> ../usr/X11R6 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 12288 Sep 14 23:42 bin drwxr-xr-x 242 root root 5120 Sep 14 23:42 doc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 30 13:05 lib -> ../usr/lib drwxrwsr-x 7 root staff 1024 Aug 30 12:48 local lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 13 23:22 sbin -> ../usr/sbin ... where /usr/bin, /usr/doc and /usr/local are kept outside of the /usr partition. The symlinks in /usr-overflow are simply the ones I happened to find where needed; it probably be simpler just to symlink everything from /usr into /usr-overflow, then delete the ones to be moved. Symlinks to top-level direcrories work with no other changes, of course. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: <URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2
