From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 18:19:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4837E37B502 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e971JLi59545; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:19:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <007501c02ff8$60d599a0$6245da80@ucsf.edu> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 18:19:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Matt Harrington Subject: Re: simple "amd" setup problem Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Oct-00 Matt Harrington wrote: > > >> If you want amd mounts >> so you can have /host/mercury/home and do evil things like making /home >> a symlink to /host/mercury/home, then add ... > > > Yes, that will do what I need. I know it's a bad thing but I can't remember > exactly why one should avoid having mount points in /. Can you elaborate? I would just use a static mount rather than the symlink is all. Mount points in / aren't bad, /usr and /var are quite common. :) > Thanks, > > Matt -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message