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At 07:42 AM 11/25/2003, Konrad Heuer wrote:

>3) Try to identify subdirectories containing a lot of data within the
>    filesystem which is too small, move them by mv to a filesystem with
>    enough free space and symlink them back (ln -s) to the old location.
>    But do not move the whole /etc directory from the root to another
>    filesystem!

Newbie question here. Is the reason you don't suggest mv then ln -s for 
/etc because it is accessed very frequently so it would incur the most 
overhead to make this choice?

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