According to LENGARD Pascal OCISI: While burning my CPU.
>
> the symlink method will not work if this is an anonymous ftp with
> chrooted environment ...
> in this case fall back to mounting the partition directly in ftp/incoming
If it does not work then you will have to change the permissions with chmod
and chgrp, and make sure you use 'cp' with the -Rp options.
It works here.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Olszewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 5:50 PM
> To: Isaacson, Scott D.; Linux-Newbie (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Hard Drive Space checking.
>
> 2. You say that hdb is "in place, formatted, and mounted". I assume you
> mean
> it has one or more ext2 partitions (/dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, etc.) on it.
> All
> you should need to do, then, is create a directory on one of the hdb*
> filesystems, then symlink /home/ftp/imcoming to it. Making some arbitrary
> assumptions about where you've mounted the new partitions, this would
> look
> something like
>
> rm /home/ftp/incoming (be sure to cp any files in it first)
> mkdir /mnt/newdrive/ftp
> mkdir /mnt/newdrive/ftp/incoming
> ln -s /mnt/newdrive/ftp/incoming /home/ftp/incoming
>
> OR, if you want to dedicate an entire partition to this function, you can
> mount the partition on /home/ftp/incoming, with a command like
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /home/ftp/incoming
>
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