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The Friday 2007-05-18 at 23:51 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
> > Mmmm... The "/usr" directory is a typical one to have on a separate
> > partition, and in that case there can't be hardlinks from outside. If some
> > programs requires hardlinks, it is a bug.
> >
>
> Probably not, I do remember that the directories concerned were
> originally on the same partition, ln by default creates hardlinks.
> Shuffling key system directories around different partitions is not
> really a normal activity and one cannot really expect those who setup
> configurations to take account every slightly loopy activity of the user
> community ;-)
It is certainly not loopy as it is talked about as some times recomended
in the admin book written by SuSE.
I myself have part of /usr on a different partition in this system, and
entirely out on another older system, without any problems for years.
There are some directories that have to remain in the same partition as /,
but /usr is not one of them.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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