For some reason I continue to miss the obvious.
On a machine with two smallish HD's;
/dev/hda; The 1-gig has M$/Linux-Mandrake 6.1 with
System Commander as boot manager.
/dev/hdc The second 400mg HD, I made a ext2 mounted as
/usr/local.
/dev/hda3 / <this one of course has a usr/local too>
/dev/hdc1 /usr/local
How does one get Linux to always tell the difference
between the two /usr/locals? I initially intended
to have all new programs install in /dev/hdc /usr/local
in fact I would have preferred to have all original
programs which get put into /usr/local go into the "extra"
/usr/local, i.e. the whole install spread out over
the two drives. I have "fumbled" with this same issue
many times over the last couple years. All the reading and
misconfigurations have yet to shed real "light" on this,
for me anyway.
So is the obvious to cp everything in one /usr/local
to the other /usr/local maintaining all permissions,
sym-links etc.? Or a cleaner "do it right the first time"
kind of routine which I am missing?
Thanks for any thoughts on this.
William Bouterse
Juneau Alaska
