From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/468 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Laurent Bercot Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: Can /package be a symlink? Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:05:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20040624180522.GA4811@skarnet.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088100308 17897 80.91.224.253 (24 Jun 2004 18:05:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-706-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Thu Jun 24 20:05:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by deer.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BdYar-0005Q4-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:05:01 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 4899 invoked by uid 76); 24 Jun 2004 18:05:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 4893 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Jun 2004 18:05:22 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:468 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:468 > My system has a small root partition and I can't easily repartition > my disks. Therefore, can I make the /package directory be a symlink > pointing to somewhere on a different partition? Yes, of course. The only caveat is, as usual: make sure you don't use any file in /package before you mount your filesystems, and make sure you don't need /package in your shutdown sequence (to be able to unmount the partition). -- Ska