Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
050603 Andreas Vinsander wrote: Philip Webb wrote: IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition. others please correct me, if i'm mistaken. I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links across partitions, just try it! ok thanks (wry grin)! you are correct. --

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Philip Webb wrote: 050603 Andreas Vinsander wrote: Philip Webb wrote: IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition. others please correct me, if i'm mistaken. I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links across partitions, just try it! ok thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 04 June 2005 18:37, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 050603 Andreas Vinsander wrote: Philip Webb wrote: IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition. others please correct me, if i'm mistaken. I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Andreas Vinsander wrote: I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links across partitions, just try it! Its hard links that dont work across file-systems. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the partition where /var/tmp resides is too full. So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk which had a lot of space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me permission errors. So im asking, how can you use /var/tmp on another disk. I dont

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread A. R.
Hello, Did you set the right permissions? something like chmod 1777 destination directory on the other disk Of course, as long as you are linking to a directory in the other disk, however, I don't really know what needs to be done if you are using the whole partition in the other disk as the

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread Zac Medico
--- Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the partition where /var/tmp resides is too full. So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk which had a lot of space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me permission errors. Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Ognjen Bezanov schreef: I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the partition where /var/tmp resides is too full. So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk which had a lot of space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me permission errors. So im asking, how can you use

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread Philip Webb
050603 Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I tried making a symbolic link to another disk IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition. others please correct me, if i'm mistaken. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___,