-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: > > 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. >
I think my point has been missed. Putting different parts of the tree on different partitions on initial install is normative. Separating system and application directories from user data space (and log directories) is good practice on Windows, Linux and Netware based systems. Moving system and application directories around after installation usually means someone has got their sums wrong (Netware had the nifty capability of extending logical volumes across multiple partitions, which meant that all you did was plug in another chunk of disk space when you running a bit low on storage in another area so one rarely needed to do this kind of directory juggling but this not an option on Windows or Linux based systems). In my case the machines role had changed and I ran into space problems because I was installing more than I had initially planned... I should have performed some more rigorous checks before moving things around which really is down to me in the end .... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTrQlasN0sSnLmgIRAoKBAKCSd+9xzsXoPO0exlfBf55L7WmIxACeNs1S vIqkcC7wZsTbpARJSx7cLf0= =t4dq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
