Subject: Re: successful install on new G4
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew White <awhite@arc.corp.mot.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/03/2001 13:18:40
Mike Bush wrote:
>
> > If you use the 3 partition (root, swap, usr) setup described in my
> > document, you will discover that 'home' lives in the root volume not
> > the usr volume. This can cause / to run out of space quite quickly.
[snip]
> how about a symlink?
>
> # mv /home /usr/home
> # ln -s /usr/home /home
>
> I'd had my system setup like this for a year now with 0 problems.
That works too, but symlinks in general can cause some interesting (but
minor) side effects, such as 'cd ..' not being the inverse of 'cd <dir>'.
It also makes for longer paths.
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Andrew White Andrew.E.White@motorola.com